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NO. CCCXVII. 

FPENCH'S STANDARD DRAMA. 

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THE 



WINTER'S TALE: 



A PLAY. IK FIVE ACTS. 



BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. 



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VOL. L 

lion 

2Fu!o 

I The LB^y of Lyons 

4, KleheUea 

6 The Wife 

6 The Honeymoon 

^ The School for 8c«pflal 

i Honey 

VOL. II. 

t The StM^nger 
lO Grandfather Wh>»**«*d 
U Rlehard III 

13 Love's Sacrifice 

15 The Gamester 

14 A Care f(rr t^ Heartaohe 

16 The HmntsWbek 
16 Dop^ Gsesar de Bazan 

VOL. III. 
IT The Poor GenUenxMi 

18 Hamlet 

19 Charles II 
10 VfcPice Fr«*erT«<l 
ai Fizarro 
22 The Lore cniaae 
33 Othello 
ii Lead me Fiv^e ShiUinia 

VOL. IV. 
R5 Vlrijlnlus 

16 King of the Commons 
f) London Assurance 
28 The Re'nt Day 
i9 Two GeAtlemen*fVe»ona 
10 The Jeaious Wlfs 
n The Rivdls 

12 Perfection 

V0£.. V. [Debts 
•S A New W»y to Pay Old 
U Look Before Toa Leap 
85 King John 
J6 Nenrons Mas 

47 Damon and PrtWa* 

48 Clandestine MuTiaga 
19 William Tell 
JA. D»v after the Wedding 

VOL. VI. 
4.1 Speed the Plough 
42 Romeo and Juliet 
A3 Feudal TJ«tt«3 
44 Charles the Twelfth 
46 The Brid*' 
46 Tbe FolUea ef a Night 
ATIropObest [Pair CMy 

48 F»iut Heart IVar<,«r Won 

VO^ VIL 
iM RoaA to B»iu 

il Temper 
42 iCTadne 

13 Bertram 

44 The Dae»cv\ 
K Mnch Ado A)»«at Kothing 

46 The Cntlo 

V0J4. vni. 

47 The Apostate 
*8 TwelftJl JSight 

49 BrutQs 

40 SiTOpaon & Co 

41 Hei-abaDt of V«fll«e 
«2 Old Ho»td8& Youn* Hearts^ 

48 ModDta^Qeeri [riM^M 
64 Three Weeks aft^ U%r- 

VOL. IX. 

45 Lore 

«6 A» Von Like It 
67 Toe TClder Brother 
60 Weruor 

69 Gisippns 

70 Town and OaTxatry 

71 King Lear 

72 Bltxe Devils 

VOL. X. 

73 Henry VTlI 
T4 Married abA Slngl* 

75 Henry IV -% 

76 Paul Pry ^ 

77 Gay Mannerlng 

78 Swcetbearts a V Wives 
70 f^riou* F^roily 
60 S^e SV>ops to Conquer 



VOL. XI. 

81 Julius Csesar 

82 Vicar of Wakefield 

83 Leap Year 

84 The Catspaw 

85 The Passing Gload 

86 Drunkard 

87 Rob Roy 

88 George Barnwell 

VOL. XII. 

89 Ins;omar 

90 Sketches in India 

91 Two Friends 

92 Jane Shore 

93 Corsican Brothers 

94 Mind your own Business 

95 Writing on wiie Wall 

96 Heir at Law 

VOL. XIII. 

97 Soldier' s Daughter 

98 Douglas 

99 Marco Spada 
100 Nature's Nobleman 
.101 Sardanapalus 

102 Civilization 

103 The Robbers 

104 Katharine and Petroehio 
VOL, XIV. 

105 Game of Love 

106 Midsummer Night's 

107 Ernestine [Dream 

108 Rag Picker of Paris 

109 Flying Dutchman 

110 Hypocrite 

111 T^ese 

112 Ljftour de Nesle 
VOL. XV. 

113 Ireland As It Is 

114 Sea of Ice 

115 Seven Clerks 

116 Game of Life 

117 Forty Thieves 

118 Bryan Boroihmb 

119 Romance and Reality 

120 UgoUno 
VOL. XVL 

121 The Tempest 

122 The Pilot 

123 Carpenter of Rouen 

124 King' 8 Rival 

125 Little Treasure 

126 Dombey and Son 

127 Parents and Guardians 

128 Jewess 
VOL. XVII 

129 Camille 

130 Married Life 

131 Wenlock of Wenlock 

132 Rose of Ettrickvale 

133 David Copperfield 

134 Aline, or the Rose of 

135 Pauline [Killarney 

136 Jane Eyre 

VOL. XVIIL 

137 Night and Morning 

138 ^thiop 

139 Three Guardsmen 

140 Tom Cringle 

141 Henriette, the Forsaken 

142 Eustache Baudin 

143 Ernest Maltravers 

144 Bold Dragoons 

VOL. XIX. 
USDred, or the Dismal 

[Swamp 
146 Last Days of Pompeii 
14/ Eumerafda 

148 Fettr Wilkins 

149 Ben the Boatswain 

150 Jonathan Bradford 

151 Retribution 

152 Minerali 

VOL. XX. 

153 French Spy 

154 Wept of Wish-ton Wish 

155 Evil Genius 

156 Ben Bolt 

157 Sailor of Francs 

158 Red Mask 

159 Life ef an Actress 

160 Wedding Day 



VOL. XXI. 

161 All's Fair in Lots 

162 Hofer 

163 Self 

164 Cinderella 

165 Phantom 

166 Franklin [Mosoow 

167 The Gunmaker of 

168 The Lore of a rrincs 

VOL. xxn. 

169 Son of the Night 

170 Rory OMore 

171 Golden Eagle 

172 Rienii 
178 Broken Sword 

174 Rip Van Winkle 

175 IsabeUe 

176 Heart of Mid Lothian 
VOL. XXIII. 

177 Actress of Padua 

178 Floating Beacon 

179 Bride of Lamermoor 

180 Cataract of the Ganges 

181 Robber of the Rhine 

182 School of Reform 

183 Wanderiixf Boys 

184 Mazeppa 
VOL. XXIV. 

185 Young New York 

186 The Victim* 

187 Romance after Marrlags 

188 Brigand 
o9 Poor of New York 

190 Ambrose Gwinett 

191 Raymond and Agnea 

192 Gambler's Fate 
VOL. XXV. 

198 Father and Son 

194 Massaniello 

195 Sixteen String Jack 

196 Youthful Queen 

197 Skeleton Witness 

198 Innkeeper of Abbeville 

199 Miller and his Men 

200 Aladdin 
VOL. XXVI. 

201 Adrienne the Actress 
102 Undine 

203 Jessie Brown 

204 Asmodeus 

205 Iformons 

206 Blanche of Brandywine 

207 Viola 
Deseret Deserted 

VOL. XXVII. 

209 Americans in Paris 

210 Victorine 

211 Wizard of the Wavs 

212 Castle Spectre 

213 Korse-shoe Robinson 
14 Armand, Mrs Mowatt 

215 Fashion, Mrs Mowatt 
2i6 GlaL-3e at New York 
VOL. XXVIIL 

217 Inconptant 

218 Uncle Tom's Cabin 

219 Guide to the Stage 

220 Veteran 

221 Miller of New Jersey 

222 Dark Hour before Dawn 

223 Midsum'r Night's Dream 
[Laura Keene's Edition 

224 Art and Artifice 
VOL. XXIX 

225 Poor Young Man 

226 Ossawattomie Brown 

227 Pope of Rome 
2'i8 Oliver Twist 

229 Pauvrette 

230 Man in the Iron Mask 

231 Knigat of Arva 
H2 Moll Pitcher 

VOL. XXX. 

233 Black Eyed Susan 

234 Satan in Paris 

235 Rosins* Meadows [ess 
286 We^t Sua, or Irish Heir- 

237 Six Degrees of Crime 

238 The Lady and the Devil 

239 Avenger.or Moor of Sici 
40 Masks and Faces [ly 



( Catalogue continued on third page 9/ cover.) 



VOL. XXXI. 
Merry Wives of Windsor 
Mary's Birthday 
Shandy Maguire 
Wild Oats 
Michael Erie 
Idiot W^itness 
Willow Copse 
People's F^awycr 

VOL. XXXII. 
The Boy Martyrg 
Lucretia Borgia 
Surgeon of Paris 
Patrician's Daughter 
Shoemaker of Toulouse 
Momentous Question 
Love and Loyalty 
Robber's Wife 

VOL. XXXIII. 
Dnmb Girl of Genoa 
Wreck Ashoro 
Clari 

Rural Felicitj 
Wallace 
Madelaine 
The Fireman 
Grist to the Mill 

VOL. XXXIV. 
Two Loves and a Llfs 
Annie Blake 
Steward 
Captain Kyd 
Nick of the Woods 
Marble Heart 
Second Love 
Dream at Sea 

VOL. XXXV. 
Breach of Promisa 
Review 

Lady of the Lake 
Still Water Runs Daep 
The Scholar 
Helping Hands 
Faust and Marguerite 
Last Man 

VOL. XXXVI. 
Belle's Stratagem 
Old and Young 
Raffaella 
Ruth Oakley 
British Slave 
A Life's Ransom 
Giralda 
Time Tries All 

VOL. XXXVII. 
Ella Rosenburg 
Warlock of the Glen 
Zelina 
Beatrice 

Neighbor Jackwood 
Wonder 
Robert Emmet 
Green Bushes 

vo:,. xxxvin. 

Flowers of the Foregi 
A Bachelor of Arts 
The Midnight Banquet 
Husband of an Hour 
Love's Labor Lost 
Naiad Queen 
Caprice 

Cradle of Liberty 
VOL. XXXIX. 
The Lost Ship 
Country Squire 
Fraud and its Victims 
Putnam 

King and Deserter 
La Fiammina 
A Hard SUuggle 
Gwinnette Vaughaa 

VOL. XL. 
The Love Knot [Judge 
Lavater, or Not a Bad 
The Noble Heart 
Corlolanus 
The Winter's Tals 
Eveleen Wilson 
Ivanhoe 
Jonathan in Englantt 



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IN FIVE ACTS. 

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SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY AND INCIDENTS 



THE ¥INTER\S TALE, 

is PRODUCED AT BURTON'S THEATRE, NEW YORK, 1857, UNDER THE 

DIRECTION OP MR. W. E. BURTON, AIDED BY MR. 

JOHN MOORE, STAGE MANAGER. 



ACT I. 

Sicilia -Vestibule in a Sicilian Palace, with View of Mount ^tna 
--PjTrhic Dance, by sixteen Grecian Youths, embodvinff manv 
beautiful and graceful Tableaux. ^ uvmg many 

ACT II. 

The Queen's Boudoir a Scene of Private Life amongst the Ancient 
Greeks. Scene 2d- A Prison in the Quarries of Syracuse, called 
the Ear of Dionysius. ' 

ACT III. 

Theatre at Syracuse, prepared for the Trial of Queen Hermione, 
with the rendering of the Oracle of Apollo _ A correct and classic 
representation of the Administation of Justice in Ancient Greece — 
Ine beashore during a Storm. 

Sixteen years are supposed to elapse hettceen the M aiid ifk Acts, 
ACT lY. 

Bohemia — A Classical Allegory, representing the Course of Time 
accompanied by the Pour Seasons, personified in character — The 
Kevolvmg Globe, surmounted by Time, and arched by the Zodiacal 
bigns — lhe Goddess of Night and her Star Nymphs retreatin- 
before the Ascent of Phoebus in the Chariot of the Sun — A Koad 
near the Shepherd's Parm—The Garden of Pohxenes' Palace— \ 
pastoral Scene m Bohemia, wherein will be introduced a Dance of 
bhepherds and Shepherdesses at Sheep Shearing Pestival — Great 
batjT Orgie, by twelve Servants of the Parm. 

ACT Y. 

Sicilia — The Peristyle of the Palace, with the Celebrated Statue 
ocene, 

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COSTUMES, 

Lecntes. — First Dress. Purple velvet long shirt below calf, heavily trimmed with 
gold ; purple velvet horseshoe robe, heavily trimmed with gold : flesh legs and san- 
dals; plain gold coronet. — Second Dress. Black velvet dress, (same style as first,) 
trimmed with gold. 

Polixenes. — First Dress. Amber velvet shirt, heavily trimmed with silver ; green 
velvet robe, trimmed with silver ; fleshings and white sandals ; gold coronet. — ^cond 
Dress. Plain brown robe, to cover first dress. — (-Ath Act.) Third Dress. Same as 
first. 

FlorizeL — First Dress. Plain green short stuff shirt, trimmed with black ; small 
brown stuff shoulder drapery ; fleshings and black sandals. — Second Dress. Whitd 
Aierino long shirt, trimmed with gold ; 6k3"-blue robe, heavily trimmed with gold _, 
fleshings and blue sandals ; gold coronet. 

Mamillius. — White and gold shirt, trimmed with gold ; scarlet robe, fleshings, and 
fandals; coronet and white satin ribbon. 

Archidmius. — Olive brown long shirt, trimmed with gold; black velvet robe, 
fleshings, and black sandals ; plain coronet. 

Phocion. — Scarlet long shirt, and dark blue robe, trimmed with gold ; fleshings 
and scarlet sandals ; gold coronet. 

Thasius. — Brown long shirt and black velvet robe, trimmed with gold; fleshings 
and black sandals ; gold coronet. 

Camillo. — First Dress. Slate-colored long shirt and violet robe, trimmed with 
silver; fleshings and sandals; gold coronet. — Second Dress. Plain brown short 
shirt; blue shoulder drapery. — Third Dress. Same as first. 

Cleomenes, ] 

Dio7if _ J- Same as Phocion, (various colors.) 

Courtiers, j 

Old Shepherd.-^ Gray short shirt ; brown shoulder drapery; fleshings and leather 
gaiters, and sandal cross-gartered to knee ; white wig; black sandals. — Second Dress. 
Court dress, gaudy. 

Clown. — Green short shirt; brown and black shoulder drapery ; fleshing>5 and 
leather gaiters, and .sandal cross-gartered to knee; black sandals.— Second Dress. 
Gaudy court dress. 

Jiutolycus. — Ragged short shirt and drapery of various colors; fleshings and 
leather gaiters, cross gartered; russet sandals.— Second Dress. Gaudy court dress, 
and large robe. 

Senators. — Long shirts, (various colors:) handsomely trimmed fleshings and san- 
dals; wigs and beards of various colors, from black to white. 

Priests. — ^Yhite gowns ; gold belt, collar and cestus; gold bands for head; white 
draperies, handng from head to feet at back. 

Officers of Court. — Sky-blue shirt, trimmed with black velvet : black stuff shoul- 
der drapery, trimmed with blue; flesh arms, legs, and black sandals. 

Keeper of Prison. — Brown shirt ; fleshings and sandals. 

JV/ar/ncr. — Brown shirt, red skull-cap, trimmed with fur; fleshings and sandals. 

Shepherds.— Same as Old Shepherd ; crooks. 

Satyrs. — Flesh bodies; long hair goat-skin breeches; flesh legs; hoof shoes: wig 
and goats' horns ; long beards; wreaths of flowers over shoulders ; green oak wreath 
for head. 

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Time. — Mystic gray long shirt ; ditto drapery ; flesh body and legs ; gray sandals, 
very bald long-haired gray wig and beard; hour-glass and scythe. 

Grecian 6J'uar<Z5. — Scarlet shirts; brass strap; armor breastplate; fleshings ani 
sandals: brass greaves and brassarts; flesh bodies; brass Grecian-topped helmets; 
scarlet shoulder draperies ; javelins and oval brass shields. 

Sixteen Grecian Youths. — [Dance.] Short stuflfed shirts, (various colors ;) small 
shoulder draperies ; flesh arms, legs, and sandals. 

Pages to Leontes. — "White merino shirts, trimmed with scarlet; small scarlet 
draperies; white ribbon round head ; flesh arms and legs; red sandals. 

Spring: — Green gauze fairy dress, trimmed with flowers ; green leaf head-dress; 
fleshings and sandals ; plain green wand and cowslip. 

Summer. — White gauze fairy dress, trimmed with golden flowers; head-dress to 
match; fleshings and gold sandals; white wand, trimmed with roses and various 
flowers. 

Autumn. — Yellow gauze fairj' dress, trimmed with golden wheat, grapes, and 
grape leaf; head-dress to correspond; fleshings and brown sandals; wheat and grape- 
Tine wand. 

Winter. — Sombre slate gauze shirt, long sleeves, trimmed with frosty trimmings ; 
garland of icicles round body ; head-dress to correspond ; leather gaiters ; cross 
garters and sandals, covered with icicles, &c. ; ragged staff and fire burning in front, 
H'ith red medium to reflect on figure. 

J^eaiherd. — Plain brown shirt ; gaiters and sandals ; fleshings. 

Hermione. — First Dress. Salmon-colored French merino Greek dress; light hi uo 
robe, trimmed with gold lace and bullions; jewelled coronet; gold sandals; gold 
jewelled armlets and bracelets; armlet and bracelet kept together by a long chain. 
— Sccojid I>ress. White merino dress and lace veil. — Third Dress. Pale stone-colored 
French merino stockings, sandals, wig, and drapery, all to match in colors. 

Paulina. — "White merino, trimmed with gold; w^hite merino drapery, trimmed ; 
fleshings and scarlet sandals ; bracelets ; gold circlet. — Second Dress. Black merino 
Iress and drapery; gold appointments. 

Perdita. — White merino dress, trimmed with wreaths and festoons of wild 
flowers ; wild flower head-dress ; fleshings and sandals. — Second Dress, Handsome 
court dress, different color from the others. 

Ladies. — Various colored merino dresses and draperies, handsomely trimmed; 
fleshings and sandals ; bracelets and armlets j tiaras, fibulas, zones, and golden 
jewels. 

Shepherdesses. — Rustic dresses of stuff, trimmed with leaves of flowers ; fleshinja 
and sandals; crooks, trimmed with wreaths; wreaths of wild flowers for head 



WINTER'S TALE. 



ACT I. 

Scene I. — Vestibule in Leoxtes' Palace at Sicihay with view of 
Mount Etna, 4 and 7 G. Three State Chairs on R. h. 

Enter Camillo and Archidamus, r. h. u. e. 

Arch, (r. h.) If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on 
the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, 
as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. 

Cam, (l. h.) I think, this coming summer, the King of Sicilia 
means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. 

Arch, Wherein our entertainment shall shame us, we will be jus- 
tified in our loves ; for, indeed 

Cam, Beseech you 

Arch, Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge ; we 
cannot with such magnificence — in so rare — I know not what to 
say. We will give you sleepy drinks ; that your senses, unintelligent 
of our insufiicience, may, though they cannot praise us, as httle ac- 
cuse us. 

Cam* You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. 

Arch, Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me, and 
as mine honesty puts it to utterance. 

Cam, Sicilia cannot show himself over kind to Bohemia. They 
were trained together in their childhoods ; and there rooted betwixt 
them then such an affection, which cannot choose but branch now. 
Since their more mature dignities and royal necessities made separa- 
tion of their society, their encounters, though not personal, have been 
royally attorneyed, (1) with interchange of gifts, letters, loving embas- 
sies; that they have seemed to be together, though absent; shook 
hands, as over a vast ; (2) and embraced, as it w^ere, from the ends of 
opposed winds. The Heavens continue their loves ! 

Arch, I think there is not in the world either malice or matter 
to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince 
Mamillius ; it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came 
into my note. 

Cam, I very well agree with you in the hopes of him. It is a 
gallant child ; one that, indeed, physics the subject, (3) makes old 
hearts fresh. They that went on crutches ere he was born, desire yet 
their life, to see him a man. (March icitJiout, piano, v. e. l. h.) 

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Arch. Would they else be content to die ? 

Cam, Yes ; if there were no other excuse why they should desire 
to live. 

Arch. If the king had no son, they would desire to live on crutches 
till he had one. (^March, forte.) (£a:ew?i^, l. h. u. e.) 

Enterf u. E. L. h., through archway^ Leontes, Polixexes, Hermioxe, 
Mamillius, Camillo, Archidamus, Paulina, Antigonus, Cleo-^ 
MENES, Phocion, Dion, Tiiasius, Lamia, Hero, Emilia, 12 
guardSi 12 lords 12 ladles y 16 Grecian youths, 

SITUATIONS. 

6 Lords. 12 Guards. 

6 Ladies. 3 Lords. 

Hero. 6 Ladies. 

Lamia, Emilia. 3 Lords. 
Paulinia. 

Mamillius. Cleomenes, 6 Ladies. 

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^ Polixenes. Phocion. 

,,^0^^ Hermione. Thasius. 

^ Leontes. Camillo, Antigonus. 
Pyrrhic Dance by 16 Grecian Youths. 

(E}id of Dance. Exeunt youths^ u. e. l. h. Leontes a7id Po« 
LiXENES advance to front.) 

Pol. Nine changes of the watery star have been 
The shepherd's note, since we have left our throne 
Without a burden. Time as long again 
Would be filled up, my brother, with our thanks ; 
And yet we should, for perpetuity. 
Go hence in debt. And therefore, like a cipher, 
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply. 
With one loe-thank-youy many thousands more 
That go before it. 

Leon, (c.) Stay your thanks a while ; 

And pay them when you part. 

Pol. (r. h.) Sir, that's to-morrow. 

I am questioned by my fears, of what may chance, 
Or breed upon our absence ; that (4) may blow 
No sneaping (o) winds at home, to make us say, 
This is put forth too truly ! (6) Besides, I have staid 
To tire your royalty. 

Leon. We are tougher, brother, 
Than you can put us to't. 



SCENE I.] TVINTER'S TALE. 9 

Pol. No longer stay. 

Leon, One sevennight longer. (Hermio Ie advajiccs downy L. n.) 

Pol. Very soo; h, to-morrow. 

Leon, We'll part the time between's, then ; and in that 
■ I'll no gainsaying. 

Pol, Press me not, 'beseech you, so. 

There is no tongue that moves, none, none i'the world, . 
So soon as yours, could win me ; so it should now, 
Were there necessity in your request, although 
'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs 
Do even drag me homeward ; which to hinder 
Were, in your love, a whip to me ; my stay, 
To you a charge and trouble. To save both, 
Farewell, our brother. 

Leo?t. Tongue tied, our queen ? Speak you. 

Her. (l. h.) I had thought, sir, to have held my peace, until 
You had drawn oaths from him not to stay. You, sir, 
Charge him too coldly. Tell him, you are sure, 
All in Bohemia's well ; this satisfaction 
Tlie by- gone day proclaimed ; say this to him, 
He's beat from his best ward. 

Leo7i, Well said, Hermione. 

Hei\ To tell he longs to see his son, were strong : 
But let him say so then, and let him go ; 
But let him swear so, and he shall not stay ; 
We'll thwack him hence with distaffs. 

Yet of your royal presence {crosses c. ; Leoxtes goes tip to MamilliuSj 
afid takes him to state chair, R. H. — To Polixenes) I'll ad- 
venture 
The boiTow of a week. When at Bohemia 
You take my lord, I'll give him my commission. 
To let (7) him there a month, behind the gest (8) 
Prefixed for his parting ; yet, good deed, Leontes, 
I love thee not a jar o'the clock behind 
What lady she her lord. — You'll stay ? 

Pol, No, madam. 

Her, Nay, but you will ? 

Pol, I may not, verily. 

Her. Verily ! 
You put me off with limber vows ; but I, 
Though you would seek to unsphere the stars with oalhs, 
. Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily, 
You shall not go ; a lady's verily is 
As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet : 
Force me to keep you as a prisoner, 
Not like a guest ; so you shall pay your fees. 
When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you? 
My prisoner, or my guest ? By your dread verily, 
One of them you shall be. 

Pol, Your guGst, then, madam ; 

To be your prisoner, should import offending ; 



10 winter's tale. "act I. 

Which is tor me less easy to commit, 
Than you to punish. 

He7\ Not your jailer, then, 

But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you 
Of my lord's tricks, and yours, when you were boys ; 
You were pretty lordings then. 

Pol, We were, fair queen, 

Two lads that thought there was no more behind, 
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, 
And to be boy eternal. 

Her, Was not my lord the verier wag o' the two ? 

Pol, We were as twinned lambs, that did frisk i'the sun, 
And bleat the one at the other. What we changed, 
Was innocence for innocence ; we knew not 
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dreamed 
That any did. Had we pursued that life, 
And our weak spirits ne'er been higher reared 
With stronger blood, we should have answered Heaven 
Boldly,. Not Guilty ; the imposition cleared, (9) 
Hereditary ours. 

Her. By this we gather, 

You have tripped since. 

Pol, O, my most sacred lady, 

Temptations have since then been born to us ; for 
In those unfledged days was my wife a girl ; 
Your precious self had then not crossed the eyes 
Of my young play-fellow. 

Her, Grace to boot ! (10) 

Of this make no conclusion ; lest you say. 
Your queen and I are devils. Yet, go on ; 
The offences we have made you do, we'll ansAver. 

Leon, (^Coming forward to c. ; Mamillius returns to Paulina .") 
Is he won yet ? 

Her, He'll stay, my lord. 

Loon* At my request he would not. — {^Aside ) 

Hermione, my dearest, thou never spok'st 
To better purpose. 

Her, Never ? 

Leon. Never but once. 

Her, What ? have I twice said well r W^hen wast before ? 
I prithee, tell me. One good deed, dying tongueless, 
Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. 
Our praises are our wages : you may ride. 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. But to the goal. — 
My last good was, to entreat his stay ; 
What was my first ? It has an elder sister, 
Or I mistake you. O, would her name were Grace ! 
But once before I spoke to the purpose. When ? 
Nay, let me have't ; I long. 

Leon, Why, that was when 



SCENE I.] ITINTER's TALE. 11 

Three crabbed months had soured themselves to death, 
Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, 
And clap (11) thyself my love ; then didst thou utter, 
J am yours forever* 

Her. {Tm-ning to Leontes, toho takes her hand,) It is grace, in- 
deed. — 
Why, lo you now, I have spoke to the purpose twice. 
The one forever earned a royal husband ; 
The other, for some while, a friend. 

(^Giving her hand to Polixenes, a. h.) 

Leon, (l. h.) Too hot, too hot. — {Aside.') 

To mingle friendship far, is mingling bloods. 
I have tremor cordis on me ; — my heart dances ; 
But not for joy, — not joy. — This entertainment 
May a free face put on ; derive a liberty 
From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, (12) 
And well become the agent. It may, I grant : 
But to be paddling palms, and pinching fingers, 
As now they are ! Mamillius, art thou my boy ? 

Mam. {Do2Vfif l. h.) Ay, my good lord. 

Leon. I' fecks ? 

Why, that's my bawcock ! (13) What, hast smutched thy nose ? — 
They say, it's a copy out of mine. Come, captain, 
We must be neat ! not neat, but cleanly, captain ; 

{Wipes the face of 'Mamuli.ujs,) 
And yet the steer, the heifer, and the calf. 
Are all called neat. — Still virginalling (14) 

( Observing Polixexes atid Hermione.) 
Upon his palm r — How now, you wanton calf ? 
Art thou my calf r 

Mam. Yes, if you will, my lord. 

Leon. Thou want'st a rough pash, and the shoots that I have, (lo) 
To be full (16) like me : yet, they say, w'e are 
Almost as like as eggs ; women say so. 
That will say any thing. But were they false 
As wind, as waters, yet w^re it true 
To say this boy w^ere like me. — Come, sir page, 

{Lifting up Mamillius.) 
Look on me \^ath your welkin (17) eye. Sweet villain ! 
Most dearest ! my collop ! (18) — can thy dam ? — May't be ? 

Pol. (R. c, looking at Leontes.) What means Sicilia r 

Her. He something seems unsettled. 

Vol. {Coming foi'ward.) How! my lord? 

What cheer ? How is't with you, best brother ? 

Her. (l. c.) You look 

As if you held a brow of much distraction. 
Are you moved, my lord r 

Leon, (c, looking round to R. H.) No, in good earnest. — 
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, 
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms ! Looking on the lines 
Of my boy's face, methought I did recoil 



EldM 



12 avinter's tale. [act I. 

Twenty- three years ; and saw myself unbreeched, 

In my green velvet coat ; my dagger muzzled, 

Lest it should bite its master, and so prove. 

As ornaments oft do, too dangerous. 

How like, methought, I then was to this kernel, 

This squash, (19) this gentleman. Mine honest friend, {to Mamilltus.) 

Will you take eggs for money ? (20) 

Mam, No, my lord, I'll fight. 

LeoJi, You will ? why, happy man be his dole ! — (21) 
My brother, (to Polixenes.) 
Are you so fond of your young prince, as we 
Do seem to be of ours r 

PoU If at home, sir. 

He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter ; 
Now, my sworn friend, and then mine enemy ; 
My parasite, my soldier, statesman, all ; 
He makes a July's day short as December ; 
And, with his varying childness, cures in me 
Thoughts that would thick my blood. 

Leon, So stands this squire 

Officed with me. We two will walk, my lord. 
And leave you to your graver steps. — Hermione, 
How thou lov'st us, show in our brother's welcome ; 
Let what is dear in Sicily be cheap. 
Next to thyself, and my young rover, he's 
Apparent (22) to my heart. 

Her, If you would seek us. 

We are yours i'the garden. (Hermioxe loaves her hand ; the court 
divide^ leaving the centre open,) Shall's attend you there r 

Leoji, To your own bents dispose you : you'll be found. 
Be you beneath the sky ; — I am angling now, 
Though you perceive me not how I give line. 

{March icithout^ forte ^ u. e. r. h. Exeunt hi procession ^ u. E. r. h., 
QuEEX, Hermioxe, Polixenes, Antigoxus, Phociox, Tha- 
sius, Diox, Archidamus, Hero, Paulina, Emilia, Lamia, 
Cleomexes, 12 ladles, 12 lords, and 12 guards,) 

Leon, Go to, go to ! {Goes up, r. h., and l<x)ks after them ; Ca- 
MiLLO a7id Mamillius on l. h.) 
How she holds up the neb, (23) the bill to him ! 
And arms her with the boldness of a wife 
To her allowing husband ! Gone already ! 
Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears a forked one. (24) 

{Exit Camillo, u. e. r. h.) 
Go, play, boy, play ; — thy mother plays, and I 
Play too ; but so disgraced a part, whose issue 
Will hiss me to my grave ; contempt and clamor 
Will be my knell. — Go, play, boy, play. — There have oeen, 
Or I am much deceived, cuckolds ere now ; 
And many a man there is, even at this present. 
Now, while I speak this, holds his wife by the arm, 
That little thinks she has Should all despair, 



SCENE I.] winter's TALE. 13 

That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankmd 

Would hang themselves. Physic for't there is none ; 

It is a bawdy planet, that will strike 

Where 'tis predominant ; and 'tis powerful, think it, 

Prom east, west, north, and south : be it concluded. 

No barricado for a belly ; know it ; 

It will let in and out the enemy. 

Many a thousand of us 

Have the disease, and feel't not. (Mamillius i^uUs him by the cloak*) 

Enter Camillo, v. e. r. h. 

How now, boy ? 

Main, I am like you, they say. 

Leon» Why, that's some comfort — 

What ! Camillo there ? 

Cam. Ay, my good lord. 

Leon. Go play, Mamillius : thou'rt an honest man. — 

{Exit Mamillius, r. e. r. h.) 
Camillo, this great sir will yet stay longer. 

Cam. You had much ado to make his anchor hold ; 
When you cast out, it still came home, (25) 

Leoru Didst note it ? 

Cam. He would not stay at your petitions ; made 
His business more material. (26) 

Leon, Didst perceive it r — 

They're here with me already : (27) whispering, roundir, ^, (28) 
Sicilia is a so-forth. (29) 'Tis far gone. 
When I shall gust (30) it last. — How came't, Camillo, 
That he did stay ? 

Cam. At the good queen's entreaty. 

Leon. At the queen's, be't : good, should be pertinent 
But so it is, it is not. Was this taken 
By any understanding pate but thine ? 
Por thy conceit is soaking, will draw in 
More than the common blocks. — Not noted, is't, 
But of the finer natures ? By some severals. 
Of head-piece extraordinary ? Lower messes, (31) 
Perchance, are to this business purblind : say. 

Cam. Business, my lord ? I think most understand 
Bohemia stays here longer. 

Leon. Ha ? 

Cam. Stays here longer. 

Leon. Ay, but why J 

Cam. To satisfy your highness, and the entreaties 
Of our most gracious mistress. 

Leon. Satisfy 

The entreaties of your mistress r Satisfy r — 

Let that suffice. I have trusted thee, Camillo, 
With all the nearest things to my heart, as well 
My chair.ber-ctruncils ; wherein, priestlikc, thou 
2 



14 winter's tale. [act I. 

Hast cleansed my bosom ; I from thee departed 
Thy penitent reformed ; but we have been 
Deceived in thy integrity, deceived 
In that which seems so. 

Cam. Be it forbid, my lord ! 

Leon. To bide upon't : Thou art not honest ; or, 
If thou inclin'st that way, thou art a coward ; 
Which boxes (32) honesty behind, restraining 
From course required ; or else thou must be counted 
A servant, grafted in my serious trust, 
And therein negligent ; or else a fool. 
That seest a game played home, the rich stake drawn. 
And tak'st it all for jest. 

Cam. My gracious lord, 

In your affairs, 

If ever I were wilful-negligent. 
It was my folly ; if industriously 
I played the fool, it was my negligence. 
Not weighing well the end ; if ever fearful 
To do a thing, where I the issue doubted, 
'Twas a fear 

Which oft affects the wisest. These, my lord. 
Are such allowed infirmities, that honesty 
Is never free of. But, 'beseech your grace. 
Be plainer with me : let me know my trespass 
By its own visage. If I then deny it, 
'Tis none of mine. 

Leo7t. Have not you seen, Camillo, 

(But that's past doubt : you have,) or heard, 
^For, to a vision so apparent, rumor 
Cannot be mute,) or thought, (for cogitation 
Resides not in that man that docs not think it,) (33) 
My wife is slippery ? If thou wilt confess, 
(Or else be impudently negative, 
To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought,) then say, 
My wife's a hobby-horse ; deserves a name 
As rank as any flax -wench, that puts to 
Before a troth-plight : say it, and justify it. 

Cam. 1 would not be a stander-by to hear 
My sovereign mistress clouded so, without 
My present vengeance taken. 'Shrew my heart, 
You never spoke what did become you less 
Than this, which to reiterate, were sin 
As deep as that, though true. 

Leon. Is whispering nothing ? 

Is leaning cheek to cheek ? 
Stopping the career 

Of laughter with a sigh ? (a note infallible 
Of breaking honesty :) 

Skulking in comers ? Wishing clocks more swift ? 
Hours, minutes ? Noon, midnight ? And all eyes blind 



SCENE I.] winter's TALE. 15 

"With the pin and web, (34) but theirs, theirs only, 
That would unseen be wicked ? Is this nothing ? 
Why, then, the world, and all that's in't, is nothing ; 
The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia nothing ; 
My wife is nothing; nor nothing have these nothings. 
If this be nothing. {^Crosses to l. h., and back to R. H.) 

Cam, Good my lord, be cured 
Of this diseased opinion, and betimes ; 
For 'tis most dangerous. 

Leon, Say, it be ; *tis true. 

Cam, No, no, my lord. 

Leon, You lie, you lie ; it is : 
I say, thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee ; 
Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave ; 
Or else a hovering temporizer, that 
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and evil. 
Inclining to them both. Were my Avife's liver 
InfcQted as her life, she would not live 
The running of one glass. (35) (^Crosses to l. h.) 

Cam. ^ Who does infect her ? 

Leon, Why, he that wears her like his medal, (36) hanging 
About his neck, Bohemia. Who — if I 
Had servants true about me, that bare eyes 
To see alike mine honor as their profits, 
They would do that 

W^hich should undo more doing. Ay, and thou. 
His cupbearer, — who mayst see 
Plainly, as heaven sees earth, and earth sees heaven, 
How I am galled, — mightst bespice a cup, (37) 
To give mine enemy a lasting wink ; 
Which draught to me were cordial. 

Cam. Sir, my lord, 

I could do this ; and that with no rash (38) potion. 
But with a lingering dram, that should not work 
Maliciously like poison. But I cannot 
Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress. 
So sovereignly being honorable. 
I have loved thee, ■ 

Leon. I've loved thee. Make't thy question, and go rot ! (39) 
Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. 
To appoint myself in this vexation ? sully 
The purity and whiteness of my sheets, 
Which to preserve, is sleep ; which being spotted, 
Is goads, thorns, nettles, tails of wasps ? (40) 
Give scandal to the blood o' the prince, my son. 
Who, I do think, is mine, and love as mine ; 
Without ripe moving to't r Would I do this ? 
Could man so blench ? (4 1) 

Cam. I must believe you, sir. 

I do ; and will fetch off Bohemia for't ; 
Provided, that when he's removed, youi' highness 



\f. ^vinter's tale. ^\ct t 

W'ill take again your queen, as yours at first ; 
Even for your son's sake ; and thereby, for sealing 
The injury of tongues in courts and kingdoms 
Known and allied to yours. 

Leo?2 . Thou dost advise me, 

Even so as I mine own course have set down. 
I'll give no blemish to her honor, none. 

Cam* My lord, 

Go then ; and with a countenance as clear 
As friendship wears at feasts, keep wdth Bohemia, 
And with your queen. I am his cupbearer ; 
If from me he have wholesome beverage, 
Account me not your servant. 

Leon. This is all ; 

Do't, and thou hast the one half of my heart ; 
Do't not, thou splittest thine own. 

Cam. I'll do't, my lord. 

Leo7i. I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me. 

{Exity u. E. R. H.) 

Cam. O miserable lady — But, for me, 
What case stand I in ? I must be the poisoner 
Of good Polixenes : and my ground to do't 
Is the obedience to a master ; one, 
"Who, in rebellion with himself, will have 
All that are his, so too. — To do this deed. 
Promotion follows. If I could find example 
Of thousands, that had struck anointed kings. 
And flourished after, I'd not do't ; but since 
Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one. 
Let villany itself forswear' t. I must 
Eorsake the court : to do't, or no, is certain 
To me a break-neck. (T^«•?^5, r. h. ; sees Polixenes.) Happy star, 

reign now ! 
Here comes Bohemia. 

Eiitei' Polixenes, 1 e. r. ii. ; Camillo turns aicay, l. h., silently.') 

Pol. This is strange ! Methinks 

My favor here begins to warp. Not speik r — 
Good day, Camillo. 

Cam. Hail, most royal sir ! 

Pol. What is the news i' the court ? 

Cam. None rare, my lord. 

Pol. The king hath on him such a countenance, 
As he had lost some province, and a region 
Loved as he loves himself. Even now I met him 
With customary compliment ; when he. 
Wafting his eyes to the contrary, and falling 
A lip of much contempt, speeds from me ; and 
So leaves me to consider what is breeding, 
Tliat changes thus his manners. 



6CBNE I.J * winter's TALE. " 17 

Cam* I dare not know, my lord. 

Pol. How ! Dare not ? 

Cam* There is a sickness 

Which puts some of us in distemper ; but 
I cannot name the disease ; and it is caught 
Of you that yet are well. 

Pol, How ! caught of me ? 

Make me not sighted like the basilisk. 
I have looked on thousands, who have sped the better 
By my regard, but killed none so. Camillo, 
I beseech you, 

If you know aught which does behove my knowledge 
Thereof to be informed, imprison it not 
In ignorant concealment. 

Cam, I may not answer. 

Pol, I must be answered. — Dost thou hear, Camillo ? 
I conjure thee, by all the parts of man, 
AVhich honor does acknowledge, — whereof the least 
Is not this suit of mine, — that thou declare 
What incidency thou dost guess of harm 
Is creeping toward me ; how far off, how near ; 
Which way to be prevented, if to be ; 
If not, how best to bear it. 

Cam, Sir, I will tell you ; 

Since I am charged in honor, and by him 
That I think honorable. Therefore, mark my counsel ; 
Which must be even as swiftly followed, as 
I mean to utter it ; or both yourself and me 
Cry, losti and so good night. 

Pol, On, good Camillo. 

Cam, I am appointed him to murder you. (42) 

Pol, By whom, Camillo r 

Cam, Bv the king. 

Pol, ' For what ? 

Cam, He thinks, nay, with all confidence he swears, 
As he had seen't, or been an instrument 
To vice (43) you to't, — that you have touched his queen 
Forbiddenly. 

Pol, O, then my best blood turn 

To an infected jelly ; and my name 
Be yoked with his, that did betray the best ! (44) 

Cam, Swear this thought over (15) 

By each particular star in heaven, and 
You may as well 

Forbid the sea for to obey the moon, 
As, or by oath, remove, or counsel, shake 
The fabric of his folly. 

Pol, How should this grow ? 

Cam, I know not ; but, I am sure, 'tis safer to 
Avoid what's grown, than question how 'tis born. 
If thcriifore you dare trust my honesty, — 



IS winter's tale. * [act n. 

That lies enclosed in this trunk, which you 

Shall bear along impawned, — away to-night. 

Be not uncertain : 

For, by the honor of my parents, I 

Have uttered truth ; which if you seek to prove, ,^ 

I dare not stand by ; nor shall you be safer ^ 

Than one condemned by the king's own mouth thereon 

His execution sworn. 

Pol, I do believe thee : 

I saw his heart in his face. Give me thy hand ; 
Be pilot to me, and thy places shall 
Still neighbor mine. (46) My ships are ready, and 
My people did expect my hence depaiture 
Two days ago. 

Cam, It is in mine authority to command 
The keys of all the posterns. Please your highness 
To take the urgent hour. 

Pol, Good expedition be my friend, and comfort 
The gracious queen's ! 

Cam, Come, sir, away. 

(^Exeunt Polixenes aiid Camillo, 1 e. l. h.) 

Quick Drop, 

END OF ACT I. 



ACT II. 

Scene I. — The Queen s Boudoir, Octagon chamhert 3 G. ; a sofa 
and stool on R. h. ; table and tico chairs in c. at hack ; table on 2 E. 
L. H., with needleioork and six chairs ; PIermione on sofa^ R. h. ; 
Mamillius bn stool in front of sofa^ R. ii. ; Emilia aiid Lamia at 
table in c. ; Hero and Jive ladies at table, L. h. 

Her. Take the boy to you : he so troubles me, 
'Tis past enduring. 

Lam, Come, my gracious lord. 

Shall I be your playfellow ? 

Mam, No, I'll none of you. {^Rises ; goes 

to Emilia.) 
I love you better. 

Em, And why so, my lord : 

Mam, Not for because 

Your brows are blacker ; yet black brows, they say, 
Become some women best ; so that there be not 
Too much hair there, but in a semicircle. 
Or half-moon made with a pen. 

Em, Who taught you this ? 



8CEN-E I.] winter's TALE. 19 

Ma77i, I learned it out of women's faces. — Pray now 
What color are your eyebrows ? 

Lam, Blue, my lord. 

Ma7n, Nay, that's a mock; I have seen a lady's nose 
That has been blue, but not her eyebrows. 

Em, Hark ye ; we shall 
Present our services to a fine new prince 
One of these days ; and then you'd wanton with us, 
If we would have you. 

Her, What wisdom stirs amongst 3^ou ? Come, sir, now 
I am for you again. Pray you, sit by us. 
And tell's a tale. 

Mam, (Goes to Hermioxe, r. h.) Merry, or sad, shall't be } 

Her, As merry as you will. 

Mam. A sad tale's best for winter. 

I have one of sprites and goblins. 

Her, Let's have that, good sir. 

Come on, sit down. — Come on, and do your best 
To fright me with 3'our sprites : you're powerful at it. 

Mam, There was a man 

Leon, ( Wit hotit i Jj. -R.) Was he met there? his train? Camillo 
with him ? 

Enter Leontes, Phocion, Antigonus, Thasius, four officers^ and 
six guards^ 1 E. L. H. As Leontes enters, L. H., Hero and ladies 
rise and go over to R. h, 

Pho, Behind the tuft of pines I met them ; never 
Saw I men scour so on their way. I eyed them 
Even to their ships. 

Leon, How blessed am I 

In my just censure ! (1) in my true opinion ! — 
Alack, for lesser knowledge ! (2) How accursed 
In being so blest ! (Hermione rises,) 
There is a plot against my life, my crown ; 
All's true that is mistrusted. — That false villain, 
Whom I employed, was preemployed by him : 
He has discovered my design, and I 
Remain a pinched thing ; (3) yea, a very trick 
For them to play at will. — How came the posterns 
So easily open ? (Hermione comes foi-wardy r*h., with Mamillius.) 

Pho, By his great authority ; 

Which often hath no less prevailed than so, 
On your command. 

Leon, I know't too well. 

Give me the boy. 

{Snatches the hoy from Hermione, and passes him to Phocion on 
his L. H. ; exit Phocion, hastily, toith Mamillius, 1 e. l. h.) 
I am glad you did not nurse him. 
Though he does bear some signs of me, yet you 
Have too much blood in him. 



20 winter's tale. [act ii 

Her. (R. H. What is this ? sport ? 

Leon, (c.) Bear the boy hence ; he shall not come about her ; 
Away with him. (Heiimione retires up to sofa^ R. h.) 
Look on her, mark her well ; be but about 
To say. She is a goodly lady^ and 
The justice of your hearts will thereto add, 
' Tis pity^ shes not honesty honorable. 
Praise her but for this her without- door form, 
(Which, on my faith, deserves high speech,) and straight 
The shrug, the hum, or ha : these petty brands, 
That calumny doth use ; — 0,1 am out ; 
That mercy does ; for calumny will sear 
Virtue itself, (Hermione comes forward^ R. ir. ;) — these shrugs, these 

hums, and has, 
When you have said, she's goodly, come between, 
Ere you can say she's honest. But be it known. 
From him that has most cause to grieve it should be^ 
She's an adult'ress. 

Her, (r. h.) Should a villain say so, 

The most replenish villain in the world. 
He were as much more villain. You, my lord, 
Do but mistake. 

Leon, You have mistook, my lady, 

Polixenes for Leontes. O thou thing 
Which I'll not call a creature of thy place, 
Lest barbarism, making me the precedent, 
Should a like language use to all degrees. 
And mannerly distinguishment leave out 
Betwixt the prince and beggar ! — I have said, 
She's an adult'ress ; I have said with whom ; 
More, she's a traitor ; and Camillo is 
A federary (4) with her ; and one that knows 
What she should shame to know herself. 
That she's a bed-swerver ; ay, and privy 
To this their late escape. 

Her, ' No, by my li/et 

Privy to none of this. How will this grieve you, 
When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that 
You thus have published me ? Gentle my lord, 
You scarce can right me throughly, then, to say 
Y^ou did mistake. {^Retires up to sofa, r. ii.) 

Leon, No ; if I mistake 

In those foundations which I build upon. 
The centre is not big enough to bear 
A school-boy's top. (5) Away with her to prison. 

(^Ladles on l. ii. expostulate.) 
He who shall speak for her, is afar oif guilty, 
But that he speaks. (6) (^TJn-oios himself in chair l. c. of table, L. H.) 

Her, {Rises and comes doitm, B. ii.) There's some ill planet reigns. 
I must be patient till the heavens look 

With an aspect more favorable. {^Ladies come down, n, h.) Good 
my lords, 



SCENE I.] WINTEll's TALE. 21 

I am not prone to weeping, as our sex 
Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, 
Perchance, shall dry your pities : but I have 
That honorable grief lodged here, which burns 
Worse than tears drown. 'Beseech you all, my lords. 
With thoughts so qualified as your charities 
Shall best instruct you, measure me ; — and so 
The king's will be performed ! 

Leon, {To guards.) Shall I be heard ? 

Her, {To Leontes*) Who is't that goes with me r — 'Beseech 
your highness, 
My women may be with me ; for, you see. 
My plight requires it. {Ladies iceepingon r. h.) Do not weep, good 

fools ; 
There is no cause ; when you shall know your -nnistress 
Has deserved prison, then abound in tears. 
As I come out. This action, I now go on, 
Is for my better grace. {Going, R. H.) Adieu, my lord ; 
I never wished to see you sony ; now, 
I trust, I shall. My women, come ; you have leave, 

Leon, Go, do our bidding ; hence. {Exeunt, 1 e. r. h., queen, 
ladies, Lamia, Emilia, Hero, four officers, and six guards, who cross 
behind to R. H. ; Lord Antigonus crosses slowly after the lords, n, n.) 

Pho, 'Beseech your highness, call the queen again. 

Afit, For her, my lord, 
I dare my life lay down, and will do't, sir. 
Please you to accept it, that the queen is spotless. 

Leon, Hold your peaces. 

Ant. It is for you we speak, not for ourselves. 
You are abused, and by some putter-on, 
That will be damned for't. 

Be she honoi -flawed, — 
I have three daughters ; the eldest is eleven ; 
The second, and the third, nine, and some five ; 
If this prove true, they'll pay for't ; by mine honor, 
Fourteen they shall not see, to bring false generations. 

Leon. Cease ; no more. {Striking his ha?ids together, rising, and 
coming doion, c.) 
You smell this business with a sense as cold 
As is a dead man's nose ; but I do see't and feel't, 
As you feel doing thus ; and see withal 
The instruments that feel. (7) 

Ant, If it be so, 

We need no grave to bury honesty ; 
There's not a grain of it, the face to sweeten 
Of the whole dungy earth. 

Leon, What! lack I credit ? 

Ant. (r. h.) I had rather you did lack, than I, my lord. 
Upon this ground : and more it would content me 
To have her honor true, than your suspicion ; 
Be blamed for't how you might. 



22 winter's tale. [act ii. 

Leon, Eirtlier thou art most ignorant by age, 
Or thou \/ert I orn a fool. Camillo's flight, 
Added to their familiarity, 

(Which was as gross as ever touched conjecture,) 
Doth push on .his proceeding ; 
Yet, for a greater confirmation, 
(For, in an act of this importance, 'twere 
Most piteous to be wild,) I have despatched 
To sacred Delphos, to Apollo's temple, 
Cleomenes and Dion, whom you know 
Of stuffed sufficiency. (8) Now from the oracle 
They will bring all ; whose spiritual counsel, had, 
Shall stop, or spur me. Have I done well r 

Pho, Well done, my lord. 

Leon. Though I am satisfied, and need no more 
Than what I know, yet shall the oracle 
Give rest to the minds of others ; such as he, 
Who?;e ignorant credulity will not 
Come up to the truth. So have we thought it good, 
From our free person she should be confined ; 
Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence. 
Be left her to perform. Come, follow us ; 

Ant. Yet, hear me, gracious sovereign. 

Leon. We need no more of yonx advice ; the matter, 
The loss, the gain, the ordering on't, is all 
Properly ours ; we'll spare your wisdom, sir. 

{Exeunt Leontes and Phocion, 1 e. l. h.) 

Ant. And I wish, my liege, 
You had only in your silent judgment tried it. 
Without more overture. (^Exit Antigonus, 1 e. r. h.) 



Scene II. — The Outer Room of a Prison^ 1 G. D. f. l. h. prac^ 

ileal. 

Eriter Paulina, and tioo gentlemen^ 1 e. r. h. 

Paul. The keeper of the prison, — call to him ; 
Let him have knowledge who I am. (^Exit gejitlemen, d. f. l. h.) 

Good lady, 
No court in Europe is too good for thee ; 
What dost tli£)u then in prison ? 

Reenter gentleman, with the Keeper, d. f. l. h. 

Now, good sir, 
Y'ou know me, do you not ? 

Keep. (l. h.) For a worthy lady, 

And one whom I much honor. 

Paul. Pray you, then, 

Conduct me to tl i queen. 



SCENE II.] winter's TALE. 23 

Keep. 1 may not, madam ; to the contrary 
I have express commandment. 

Paul, Here's ado, 

To lock up honesty and honor from 

The access of gentle visitors ! Is it lawful, 

Pray you, to see her women ? any of them ? 
Emilia ? 

Keep, So please you, madam, ro put 
Apart these your attendants, I shall bring 
Emilia forth. 

Paul. I pray now, call her. 

Wiohdraw yourselves. (^Exetmt two gentlemen^ 1 e. r. h.) 

Keep, ^ And, madam, 

I must be present at your conference. 

Paul, Well, be it so, prithee. i^Exit Keeper, d. p. l. h.) 

Here's such ado to make no stain a stain. 
As passes coloring. 

Reenter Keeper, icith Emilia, d. f. l. h. 

Dear gentlewoman, how fares our gracious lady ? 

Emil. As well as one so great, and so forlorn, 
May hold together. On her frights and griefs 
(Which never tender lady hath borne greater) 
She is, something before her time, delivered. 

Paul, A boy ? 

Emil, A daughter ; and a goodly babe. 

Lusty, and like to live. The queen receives 
Much comfort in't ; says. My poor prisoner y 
I am innocent as you, 

Paul, I dare be sworn. 

These dangerous, imsafe lunes (9) o' the king ! beshrew them ! 
He must be told on't, and he shall ; the office 
Becomes a woman best ; I'll take't upon me: 
If I prove honey-mouthed, let my tongue blister ; 
Pray you, Emilia, 

Commend my best obedience to the queen ; 
If she dares trust me with her little babe, 
I'll show't the king, and undertake to be 
Her advocate to th' loudest. We do not know 
How he may soften at the sight o' the child ; 
The silence often of pure innocence 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 

Emil, Most worthy madam. 

Your honor, and your goodness, is so evident, 
That your free undertaking cannot miss 
A thriving issue. Please your ladyship 
To visit the next room, I'll presently 
Acquaint the queen of your most noble offer ; 
Who, but to-day, hammered of this design ; 
But durst not tempt a minister of honor, 
Lest she should be denied. 



24 -winter's tale. [act ii. 

Keep. Madam, ift please the queen to send the babe, 
I know not what I shall incur, to pass it, 
Having no warrant. 

Paul, You need not fear it, sir. 

The child was prisoner to the womb ; and is, 
By law and process of great nature, thence 
Freed and enfranchised : not a party to 
The anger of the king ; nor guilty of, 
[f any be, the trespass of the queen. 
Do not you fear ; upon 
Mine honor, I will stand 'twixt you and danger. 

{^Exeunty d. f. l. h.) 



Scene III. — The King's Closet in the Paluce, 3 G. Sofa on L. B* 
table in c, xcith sword of Justice o?i it ; two chairs at table* 

Leontes discovered seated in chair L. of table* 

Leon. Nor night, nor day, no rest. It is but weakness 
To bear the matter thus ; mere weakness. If 
The cause were not in being ; — part o' the cause. 
She, the adult' ress ; — for the harlot king 
Is quite beyond mine arm, out of the blank 
And level (10) of my brain, plot-proof; but she 
I can hook to me. Say, that she were gone. 
Given to the death, a moiety of my rest 
Might come to me again. 

Enter Antiqonus, 1 e. ii. h. 

Who's there ? 

Ant, My lord ! {Advancing,') 

Leon, How does the boy ? 

A7it, He took good rest to-night \ 

'Tis hoped his sickness is discharged. 

Leon, To see 

His nobleness ! 

Conceiving the dishonor of his mother, 
He straight declined, drooped, took it deeply ; 
Fastened and fixed the shame on't in himself; 
Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep. 
And downright languished. — Go ; 
Fie ! no more of him ; — 
The very thought of my revenges that way 
Recoil upon me : in himself too mighty ; 
His parties, his alliance, — let him be, 
Until a time may serve ; for present vengeance, 
Take it on her. Camillo and Polixenes 



SCENE III.] WIXTEK's TALE. 25 

Laugh at me ; make their pastime at my sorrow. 
They should not laugh, if I could reach them ; nor 
Shall she, within my power. (^Retires to tahhy C.) 

Tha, (^Withouti L. h.) You must not enter. 

PauL {Without, l. h.) Nay, rather, good my lords, be second 
to me. 
Fear you his tyrannous passion more, alas, 
Ihan the queen's life ? a gracious, innocent soul ; 
More free, (11) than he is jealous. 

A7it, That's enough. 

Fho, (Without, Jj. K,) Madam, he hath not slept to-night ; com- 
manded 
None should come at him. 

Paul, Not so hot, good sir; 

I come to bring him sleep. 

Enter Phociox, Thasius, mid Paulina, 1 e. l. ji,, icith the child 
wrapped in white satin, 

'Tis such as you, — 
That creep like shadows by him, and do sigh 
At each his needless heavings, — such as you 
Nourish the cause of his awaking : I 
Do come with words as med'cinal as true ; 
Honest, as either ; to purge him of that humor, 
That presses him from sleep. 

Leo7i, AVhat noise there, ho I 

Paul, No noise, my lord ; but needful conference 
About spme gossips for your highness. 

Leo?i, How ? 

Away with that audacious lady. Antigonus, 

I charged thee, that she should not come about me. 

A7it, I told her so, my lord, 
On your displeasure's peril, and on mine, 
She should not visit you. 

Paul. Good my liege, I come, — (advajicing to c,,) — » 
And, I beseech you, hear me, who profess (12) 
Myself your loyal servant, your physician, 
Your most obedient counsellor ; yet that dare 
Less appear so, in comforting your evils, (13) 
Than such as most seem yours; — I say, I come 
From your good queen. 

Leon, Good queen ! 

Paul, Good queen, my lord, good queen ; I say, good queen ; 
And would by combat make her good, so were I 
A man, the worst (14) about you. 

Leon. Force her hence. 

Paul, Let him, that makes but trifles of his eyes. 
First hand me : on my own accord, I'll off; 
But, first, I'll do my errand. The good queen — 
For she is good — hath brought you forth a daughter ; 
3 ' • 



26 winter's tale. [act n. 

Here 'tis ; commends it to your blessing. 

(^Laying the child dowti oil sofa^ L. H.) 

Leon, {Rising and coyning forward.^ Out! 
A mankind (lo) witch ! Hence with her, out o' door ! 
A most intelligencing bawd ! 

Pmd. {Near the childy L. H.) Not so. 
I am as ignorant in that, as you 
In so entitUng me ; and no less honest 
Than you are mad ; which is enough, I'll waiTant, 
As this world goes, to pass for honest. 

Leon, Traitors ! 

Will you not push her out ? Give her the bastard. — 
Thou dotard, {to Antigonus,) thou art woman-tired, (16) unroosted 
By thy dame Partlet here. 
Take't up, I say ; give't to thy crone. (17) 

(Antigonus in the act of advancing ,^ 

Paul, Forever 

TJnvenerable be thy hands, if thou 
Tak'st up the princess, by that forced (18) baseness 
Which he has put upon't ! 

Leon, He dreads his wife. 

Paid, So I would you did ; then, 'twere past all doubt, 
You'd call your children yours. 

Leon, A nest of traitors ! 

Ant, I am none, by this good light. Nor I ; nor any. 
But one, that's here ; and that's himself; for he 
The sacred honor of himself, his queen's, 
His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander. 
Whose sting is sharper than the sword's ; and wdll not 
Once remove 

The root of his opinion, which is rotten, 
As ever oak, or stone, was sound. 

Leon, This brat is none of mine. 

Paid, {Coming a little forward^ L. c.) 'Tis yours ; 
And, might we lay the old proverb to your charge, 
So like you, 'tis the worse. 

And, thou, good goddess Nature, which hast made it 
So like to him that got it, if thou hast 
The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all colors 
No yellow (19) in't ; lest she suspect, as he does. 
Her children not her husband's ! 

Le3n, A gross hag ! — 

And, lozel, (20) thou art worthy to be hanged. 
That wilt not stay her tongue. 

Ant, (R. H.) Hang all the husbands 

That cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself 
Hardly one subject. 

Leon, Once more, take her hence. 

Paul, A most unworthy and unnatural lord 
Can do no morf*. I will not call you tyrant ; 
But this most cruel usage of your queen 



SCENE III.] winter's TALE, 27 

Savors of tyranny, t^nd will ignoble make you, 
Yea, scandalous to the world. 

Leon, On your allegiance, 

Out of the chamber with her. Were I a tyrant, 
Where were her life ? Away with her. 

(^Retires to tahUy c. Phocion and Thasius advance a step,') 

Paid, I pray you, do not push me ; I'll be gone. 
Look to your babe, my lord ; 'tis yours ; Jove send her 
A better guiding spirit ! (Phocion and Thasius advance again,) 

What need these hands ? — 
You, that are thus so tender o'er his follies, 
Will never do him good, not one of you. 

(Phocion and Thasius advance again,) 
So, so. — Farewell. ( Jb Antigonus.) We are gone. 

{Exit Paulina, 1 e. l. h.) 

Leon. Thou, traitor, hast set on thy wife to this. — 
My child ? Away with't ! — Even thou, that hast 
A heart so tender o'er it, take it hence. 
And see it instantly consumed with lire ; 
Even thou, and none but thou. Take it up straight. 
Within this hour bring me word, 'tis done, 
(And by good testimony,) or I'll seize thy life. 
With what thou else call'st thine. If thou refuse. 
And "wilt encounter with my WTath, say so. 
Go, do it : hence ; 
For thou sett' St on thy wife. 

Ant. (r. h.) I did not, sir. 

These lords, my noble fellows, if they please, 
Can clear me in't. 

Pho, We can ; my royal liege, 

He is not guilty of her coming hither. 

Leo7i, You are traitors all. 

Ant, 'Beseech your highness, give us better credit. 
We have always truly served you ; and beseech 
So to esteem of us ; and on my knees I beg 
(As recompense of our dear services. 
Past and to come) that you do change this purpose ; 
Which, being so horrible, so bloody, must 
Lead on to some foul issue. We beseech 

Leon, {Rises,) Shall I live on, to see this creature kneel 
And call me father ? Better end it now. 
Than curse it then. But, be it ; let it live. 
It shall not neither. You withdraw a while. 

{Exeunt Phocion a7id Thasius, 1 e. l. h.) 
You, sir, come you hither ; {to Antigonus ;) 
You that have been so tenderly officious 
With Lady Margery, your midwife, there, 
To save this bastard's life, (Antigonus advatices to Leontes, c.,) — 

for 'tis a bastard. 
So sure as this beard's gray, (31) — what will you adventure 
To save this brat's life ? 



28 ayixter's tale. act II. 

A7it, Any thing, my lord, 

That my abiUties may undergo, 
And nobleness impose. At least, thus much ; 
I'll pawn the little blood which I have left, 
To save the innocent ; any thing possible. 

Leon, It shall be possible. {Goes to tablet c, and draws sword f 
then advatices to Antigoxus.) Swear by this sword 
Thou wilt perform my bidding. 

Ant, 1 will, my lord. (He swears, his hand on sword.) 

Leon, Mark, and perform it ; (seest thou ?) for the fail 
9f any point in't shall not only be 
Death to thyself, but to thy lewd-tongued wife ; 
Whom, for this time, we pardon. We enjoin thee, 
As thou art liegeman to us, that thou carry 
This hateful issue of Polixenes hence, 
To some remote and desert place quite out 
Of our dominions ; and that there thou leave it, 
Without more mercy, to its own protection. 
And favor of the climate. As by strange fortune 
It came to us, I do in justice charge thee, — 
On thy soul's peril, and thy body's torture, — 
That thou commend it strangely to some place, (22) 
Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up. 

A nt, I swear to do this, though a present death 
Had been more merciful. — (Leontes retires to tablet c. ; Antigonus 
crosses to sofa^ l. h., takes up the child, speaks as he gently crosses 
to R. H.) Come on, poor babe. 
Some powerful spirit instruct the kites and ravens 
To be thy nurses ! Wolves, and bears, they say. 
Casting their savageness aside, have done 
Like offices of pity. — (On r. h.) Sir, be prosperous 
In more than this deed doth require ! and blessing, (23) 
Against this cruelty, fight on thy side. 
Poor thing, condemned to loss ! (24) 

(Exit Antigoxus, loith the child, 1 E. r. h.) 

Leon. No, I'll not rear 

Another's issue. (Trumpet without, L. h.) 

Enter Phociox and Thasius, 1 e. l. k. 

Pho, Please your highness, posts, 

From those you sent to the oracle, are come 
An hour since. Cleomenes and Dion, 
Peing well ai-rived from Delphos, are both landed, 
Hasting to the court. 

Leon, This good speed foretells 

The great Apollo suddenly will have 
The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords ; 
Summon a session, that we may arraign 
Our most disloyal lady ; for, as she hath 
^een publicly accused, so shall she have 



SCENE I.j 



-vn'inter's tale. 29 



A just and open trial. Leave me ,* 
And think upon my bidding. 

{Exeunt Leontes, 1 e. r. h., Phocion and Thasius, 1 e. l. h.) 



END OF ACT II. 



ACT III. 



Scene I. — Theatre at Si/raaise, 7 g., prepared for the trial of Queen 
Hermione. Ancient Greece. 

SITUATIONS. 

12 Guards. 12 Guards. 12 Guards. 12 Guards. 

Throne and State Chair. 
4 Officers. 4 Pages. Leontes. 4 Pages. 4 Officers. 

4 Offioers. 4 Pages. 4 Pages. 4 Officers. 

Priests. Priests. 

2 Senators, "^ , 2 Senators,"^ . 

2 Senators, ! "^ 2 Senators, I ^ 

2 Senators, f § 2 Senators, ( ^ 

2 Senators, J "^ Table, 2 Senators, J "^ 

Thasius. Written Oracle in the case^ Phocion, 

2 Priests, seated. Sword of Justice, written 2 Priests, seated. 

Indictment on Table. Cleomenes. 

Dion. 
Chairs for Hermione. Officer. 

R. H. L. H. 

Music, eight bars, icithout, u. e. r. h., (then drop ascends,) and C07itinued 
forte till scene well discovered. 

Leon. This sessions (to our great grief, we pronounce) 
Even pushes 'gainst our heart. The party tried, 
The daughter of a king ; our wife ; and one 
Of us too much beloved. — Let us be cleared 
Of being tyrannous, since we so openly 
Proceed in justice ; which shall have due course, 
Even to the guilt, or the purgation. — 
Produce the prisoner. 

Pho. It is his highness' pleasure that the queen 
Appear in person here in court. (Exit officer, 1 e. l. h.) 

Tenter Hermione, 1 e. l. h., supported by Paulina and Lamia, Emilia, 
Hero, six ladies, officer, and four guards. All rise as the queen 
enters, L. H. Hermione crosses to c, bows, {every one returns it,^ 
and crosses to R. h., folloiced by the ladies. 

Leon. Read the indictment. 
3 * 



30 winter's tale. [act hi. 

Pho. {^Standing L. of table, ta'kes indictment from the tablcy and 
reads.') *' Hermione, queen to Leontes, king of Sicilia, thou art here 
accused and arraigned of high treason, in committing adultery with 
Polixenes, king of Bohemia, and conspiring with Camillo to take 
away the life of our sovereign lord and king, thy royal hustand." 

Her, {Rises, and turns to the court.) Since what I am to say must 
be but that 
"Which contradicts my accusation, and 
The testimony on my part no other 
But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me 
To say, Not guilty : mine integrity, 
Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, 
Be so received. But thus, — If powers divine 
Behold our human actions, (as they do,) 
I doubt not, then, but innocence shall make 
False accusation blush, and tyranny 
Tremble at patience. — You, my lord, best know 
(Who least wdll seem to do so) my past life 
Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true 
As I am now unhappy ; which is more 
Than history can pattern, though devised, 
And played to take spectators. For behold me — 
A fellow of the royal bed, which owe (1) 
A moiety of the throne, a great king's daughter, 
The mother to a hopeful prince — here standing 
To prate and talk for life, and honor, 'fore 
Who please to come and hear. For life, I prize it 
As I weigh grief, which I would spare ; for honor, 
'Tis a derivative from me to mine. 
And only that I stand for. I appeal 
To your own conscience, sir, before Polixenes 
Came to your court, how I was in your grace, 
How merited to be so ; since he came. 
With what encounter so uncurrent I 
Have strained, to appear thus : (2) if one jot beyond 
The bound of honor ; or, in act, or will. 
That way inclining ; hardened be the hearts 
Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin 
Cry, Fie, upon my grave ! (Sinks into chair ^ R. H.) 

Leon. I ne'er heard yet 

That any of these bolder vices wanted 
!More impudence to gainsay what they did 
Than to perform it first. (3) 

Her. That's true enough ; 

Though 'tis a saying, sir, not due to me. 

Leon. As you were past all shame, 
(Those of your fact (4) are so,) so past all truth ; 
Which to deny, concerns more than avails ; for as 
Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself, 
No father owning it, (which is, indeed. 
More criminal in thee than it,) so thou 



SCENE I.] -winter's TALE. 31 

Shalt feel our justice ; in whose easiest passage, 
Look for'no less than death. 

Her, Sir, spare your threats ; 

The bug (5) which you would fright me with, I seek. 
To me can life be no commodity. (Rises.) 
The crown and comfort of my life, your favor, 
I do give lost ; for I do feel it gone, 
But know not how it went. My second joy. 
And first-fruits of our marriage, from his presence 
I am barred like one infectious. My third comfort, 
Starred most unluckily, (6) is from my breast, 
The innocent milk in its most innocent mouth, 
Haled out to murder ; myself on every post 
Proclaimed a strumpet ; with immodest hatred, 
The child-bed privilege denied, which 'longs 
To women of all fashion. — Lastly, hurried 
Here to this place, i'the open air, before 
I have got strength of limit. (7) Now, my liege, 
Tell me what blessings I have here alive, • 

That I should fear to die ? Therefore proceed. 

But yet hear this ; mistake me not. No ! life, 

I prize it not a straw ; — but for mine honor, 
(Which I would free,) if I shall be condemned 
Upon surmises ; (all proofs sleeping else, 
But what your jealousies awake ;) I tell you, 
'Tis rigor, and not law. — Your honors all, 
I do refer me to the oracle ; 
Apollo be my judge. {Smks into chair, R. h.) 

Leon. Bring forth, 

And in Apollo's name, his oracle. 

{During this speech of Hermione's, Phocion takes sword of justim 
from table, and gives it to Cleomexes and Dion.) 

Her, The emperor of Russia was my father. 
O, that he were alive, and here, beholding 
His daughter's trial ! that he did but see 
The flatness (8) of my misery ; yet with eyes 
Of pity, not revenge I 

Fho, You here shall swear upon this sword of justice. 
That you, Cleomenes and Dion, have 
Been both at Delphos ; and from thence have brought 
This sealed -up oracle, by the hand delivered 
Of great Apollo's priest ; and that, since then, 
You have not dared to break the holy seal, 
Nor read the secrets in't. 

Cleo, Dion, All this we swear. 

Leon, Break up the seals, and read. 

{^Music, Priest rises, goes to oracle, breaks the seals, unlocks the 
oracle, and takes out paper and gives it to Phocion ; Hermione 
rises ; Phocion advances to l. c, and reads,) 

Pho, {Reads,) •* Hermione is chaste, (Hermione, r. ii., sinks on 
her knees; all raise Jiands in praise,) Polixenes blameless, Camillo, 



32 'W'Inter's tale. [act tii. 

a true subject, Leontes a jealous tyrant, his innocent babe truly 
begotten ; and the king shall live without an heir, if that which is 
lost be not found.*' (9) 

Paul. Now blessed be the gTeat Apollo ! 

Her, Praised ! 

Leon. Ilast thou read truth ? 

Pho, Ay, my lord ; even so 

As it is here set down. 

Leon, The sessions shall proceed ; this is mere falsehood. 

Enter Emilia, hastily y 1 e. l. h. 

EmiL ' My lord the king, the king ! 

Leon. "What is the business r 

Eynil. O sir, I shall be hated to report it ; 
The prince your son, with mere conceit and fear 
Of the queen's speed, (10) is dead. 

Leon. How ! dead ! (HEUMioxEyam^*.) 

Paul. This news is mortal to the queen. Look down. 
And see what death is doing. 

Leon. Take her hence ; 

Her heart is but o'ercharged ; she will recover. 
The heavens themselves do strike at my injustice. 
I have too much believed mine own suspicion. — 
'Beseech you, 4;enderly apply to her 
Some remedies for life. (Hermioxe is borne off by Paulina and 

Lamia, 1 e. k. n.^follotced by Hero, Emilia, and ladies,) 
Break up the court. 

( Trumpet sounds ; all go up ahove^ 1 G. Scene closes.) 

SCEXE II. — Poom in the Palace of the King, 1 g. Enter Leontes, 
Phociox, and Thasius, 1 e. l. h. 

Leon. Apollo, pardon 

My great profaneness 'gainst thine oracle ! — 
I'll reconcile me to Polixenes ; 
New w^oo my queen ; recall the good Camillo ; 
Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy ; 
For, being transported by my jealousies 
To bloody thoughts and to revenge, I chose 
Camillo for the minister, to poison 
My friend Polixenes ; which had been done, 
But that the good mind of Camillo tardied 
My swift command, though I with death, and with 
Keward, did threaten and encourage him, 
Not doing it, and being done : he, most humane. 
And filled with honor, to my kingly guest 
Unclasped my practice ; quit his fortunes here. 
Which you knew great ; and to the certain (11) hazard 
Of all incertainties himself commended, 
No richer than his honor. — How he glisters 



BCBNB n.] tvinter's tale. SS 

Thorough my rust ! and how his piety- 
Does my deeds make the blacker ! 

Paul, {Without, K. k.) Woe the while ! ^ 

O, cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, 
Break too ! 

Leon, What fit is this, good lady ? 

Enter Paulina, 1 e. r. h. 

Paul. What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me ? 
What wheels, racks, iires ? What old or newer torture 
Must I receive ; Avhose every word deserves 
To taste of thy most worst ? Thy tyranny 
Together working with thy jealousies, — 
O, think what they have done. 
And then run mad, indeed ; stark mad ! for all 
Thy by- gone fooleries were but spices of it. 
When I have said, cry, woe ! — The queen, the queen, 
The sweetest, dearest creature's dead ; and vengeance for't 
Not dropped down yet. 

Leo7i. The higher powers forbid ! 

{Sinks into the arms of Phocion and TnASICi*) 

Paul. I say, she's dead ; I'll swear't. If word nor oath 
Prevail not, go and see ; if you can bring 
Tincture, or lustre, in her lip, her eye, 
Heat outwardly, or breath within, I'll serve you 
As I would do the gods. — But, O thou tyrant ! 
Do not repent these things ; for they are heavier 
Than all thy woes can stir ; therefore betake thee 
To nothing but despair. A thousand knees 
Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting, 
Upon a barren mountain, and still winter 
In storm perpetual, could not move the gods 
To look that way thou wert. 

Leon. Go on, go on. 

Thou canst not speak too much ; I have deserved 
All tongues to talk their bitterest. 

Pho, Say no more ; 

Howe'er the business goes, you have made fault 
I' the boldness of your speech. 

Paid, I am sorry for*t ; 

All faults I make, when I shall come to know them, 
I do repent. Alas, I have showed too much 
The rashness of a woman : he is touched 
To the noble heart. — What's gone and what's past help^ 
Should be past grief. Do not receive affliction 
At my petition, I beseech you ; rather 
Let me be punished, that have minded you 
Of what you should forget. Now, good my liege, 
Sir, royal sir, forgive a foolish woman. 
The love I bore your queen, — lo, fool again ! -^ 



34 WINTEU'S TALE. ''ACI m 

I'll speak of her no more, nor of your children ; 
I'll not remember you of my own lord. 
Who is lost too. Take your patience to you, 
And I'll say nothing. 

Leo}i. Prithee, bring me 

To the dead bodies of my queen and son ; 
One grave shall be for both ; upon them shall 
The causes of their death appear, unto 

Our shame perpetual. Once a day I'll visit — 

The chapel where they lie ; and tears, shed there, 
Shall be my recreation. So long as 
Nature will bear up with this exercise, 
So long I daily vow to use it. Come, 
And lead me to these sorrows. {Exetmi, 1 e. r. h.) 



Scene III. — Bohemia. A desert Countnj near the Sea^ 5 g. Set rock 
and platform i 3 e. r. h. ; set rock a?id platform, 4 e. l. h. ; ba7ik on 

R. H. 2 E. 

Enter Antigoxus, over steps, 3 e. e. h., with the child ; and a mai-iner* 

Ant, Thou art perfect, (12) then, our ship hath touched upon 
The deserts of Bohemia ? 

Mar, Ay, my lord ; and fear 

We have landed in ill time ; the skies look grimly, 
And threaten present blusters. In my conscience, 
The heavens with that we have in hand are angry, 
And frown upon us. 

Ant, Their sacred wills be done I — Go, get aboard ; 
Look to thy bark ; I'll not be long, before 
I call upon thee. 

Mar, Make your best haste ; and go not 
Too far i'the land ; 'tis like to be loud weather ; 
Besides, this place is famous for the creatures 
Of prey that keep upon't. (^Lights gradually doion*) 

Ant. Go thou away. 

I'll follow instantly. 

Mar, I am glad at heart 

To be so rid o'the business. 

(^Exit over rock, 3 e. r. h. ; distant thunder at intervals,^ 

Ant. Come, poor babe. 

I have heard (but not believed) the spirits of the dead 

May walk again. If such thing be, thy mother 

Appeared to me last night ; for ne'er was dream 

So like a waking. To me comes a creature, 

Sometimes her head on one side, some another ; 

I never saw a vessel of like sorrow, 

So filled, and so becoming ; in pure white robes, 

Like very sanctity, she did approach 

My cabin where I lay ; thrice bowed before me ; 



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And gasping to begin some speech, her eyes 

Became two spouts : the fury spent, anon 

Did this break from her : ** Good Antigonus, 

Since fate, against thy better disposition, 

Hath made thy person for the thrower-out 

Of my poor babe, according to thine oath, — 

Places remote enough are in Bohemia : 

There weep, and leave it crying ; and, for the babe 

Is counted lost forever, Perdita, 

I prithee call't ; for this ungentle business. 

Put on thee by my lord, thou ne'er shalt see 

Thy wife Paulina more : " and so, with shrieks, 

She melted into air. Dreams are toys : 

Yet, for this once, yea, superstitiously, 

I will be squared b)^ this. I do believe 

Hermione hath suifcred death ; and that 

Apollo would, this being indeed the issue 

Of King Polixenes, it should here be laid, 

Either for life, or death, upon the earth 

Of its right father. — Blossom, speed thee well ! 

{Laying down the child on bankf R. H.) 
There lie ; and there thy character ; (13) {laying down a paper ;) there 

these; {laying down a casket,) 
Which may, if fortune please, both breed thee, pretty. 
And still rest thine. {Thunder^ lightning^ and I'ahu) The storm 

begins. — Poor w- retch. 
That, for thy mother's fault, art thus exposed 
To loss, and what may follow ! — Fare thee w^ell ! 
Sweet, my heart bleeds ; and most accursed am I, 
To be by oath enjoined to this. {Heavy thunder^ lightning^ and dismal 

howling.) Farewell ! 
The day frowns more and more ; thou art like to have 
A lullaby too rough. I never saw 
The heavens so dim by day. {Hoioling of wild beasts, ^c, ivithout, 

u. E. L. H.) A savage clamor ! (14) 
This is the chase. {Bear seen, u. e. l. h.) Well may I get aboard ! 
{^Exit Antigonus ove7' rock, 3 e. r. h. ; the bear follows him*) 

Enter an old Shepherd, over rock, 4 e, l. h. 

Shep, I would there -were no age between ten and three-and- 
twenty ; or that youth would sleep out the rest ; for there is nothing 
in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the an- 
cientry, stealing, fighting. {Distarit hunting horns icithout, u. E. L. H.) 
Hark you now ! — Would any but these boiled brains of nineteen 
and two- and- twenty hunt this weather t TKey have scared away 
two of my best sheep ; which, I fear, the "wolf will sooner find than 
the master ; if any where I have them, 'tis by the sea side, browsing of 
ivy. (15) Good luck, an't be thy w^iil ! what have we here ? {Seeing 
the child on bank, R. H.) Mercy on's, a bairn ; a very pretty bairn ! 
{Taking up chili,) A boy, or a child, I wonder! A pretty one; 



86 winter's tale. [act iir. 

a very pretty one. Sure, some scape : though I am not bookish, yet 
I can read waiting- gentlewoman in the scape. This has been some 
stair-work, some trunk- work, some behind-door work. They were 
warmer that got this, than the poor thing is here. I'll take it up for 
pity : yet I'll tarry till my son come ; he hallooed but even now. 
Whoa, ho, hoa ! 

Clo. (Without^ V. E. R. H.) Hilloa, loa ! 

Shep. What, art so near ? If thou' It see a thing to talk on v/hen 
thou art dead and rotten, come hither. 

Enter Clown, over rock^ 3 e. r. h. ; lights gradually up ; Shepherd 
covers child with mantle. 

What ail'st thou, man ? 

Clo, I have seen two such sights, by sea, and by land ; — but I 
am not to say, it is a sea, for it is now the sky ; betwixt the firma- 
ment and it, you cannot thrust a bodkin's point. 

Shep, Whj% boy, how is it r 

Clo, I would you did but see how it chafes, how it rages, how it 
takes up the shore I But that's not to the point ! O, the most 
piteous cry of the poor souls ! Sometimes to see 'em, and not to see 
*em : now the ship boring the moon with her mainmast ; and anon 
swallowed with yest and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogs- 
head. And then for the land service, — to see how the bear tore 
out his shoulder bone ! how he cried to me for help, and said his 
name was Antigonus, a nobleman. — But to make an end of the ship, 
— to see how the sea flap-dragoned (16) it ! — but, first, how the poor 
souls roared, and the sea mocked them ! — and how the poor old 
gentleman roared, and the bear mocked him, both roaring louder than 
the sea or weather ! 

Shep, 'Name of mercy, when was this, boy ? 

Clo. Now, now ; I have not winked since I saw these sights. 
The men are not yet cold under water, nor the bear half dined on the 
gentleman ; he's at it now. 

Shep, 'Would I had been by, to have helped the old man ! But 
look thee here, boy. Now bless thyself; thou met'st with things 
dying, I with things new born. {Showing the childy «Src.) Here's a 
sight for thee ; look thee, a bearing -cloth (17) for a squire's child I Look 
thee here: take up, (Clown takes casket and paper; opens it,) take 
up, boy ; open't. So, let's see. It was told me, I should be rich, 
by the fairies ; this is some changeling. — Open't. What's within, 
boy r 

Clo, You're a made (18) old man ; if the sins of your youth are for- 
given you, you're well to live. Gold ! All gold ! 

Shep, This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so : up with it, keep 
it close ; home, home, the next way. (19) We are lucky, boy ; and 
to be so still, requires nothing b\it secrecy. — Let my sheep go. — 
Come, good boy, the next way home. 

Clo, Go you the next Avay with your findings ; I'll go see if the 
bear be gone from the gentleman, and how much he hath eaten : 
they are never curst, (20) but when they arr hungry : if there be any 
of him left, I'll bury it. {Goes up, 3 e. r. h.^i 



fiCEN'E T.j WINTERS TALE. 37 

Shep, That's a good deed. If thou mayst discern by that which 
IS left of him, what he is, fetch me to the sight of him. 
Clo. Marry, will I. 

Shep. 'Tis a lucky day, boy ; and we'll do good deeds on't. 
(^Exei:,nt Shepherd, icith childf casket^ and papei'^ over rock, 4 e. 
L. H. ; Clown over rocky 3 e. r. h.) 

END OF ACT III. 



ACT IV. 

fecEKT: I. — Bohemia, A classical allegory. Clouds^ 3 G., represent' 
ing the course of time. Time asceiids^ with hour-glctss and scythe^ 
through stage, on revolving globe, and arched by zodiacal signs. Music* 

Time, I, — that please some, try all ; both joy and terror, 
Of good and bad ; that make and unfold error, — 
Now take upon me, in the name of Time, 
IV' 'ipe my wings. Impute it not a crime, 
To me, or my swift passage, that I slide 
O'er sixteen years, and leave the growth untried 
Of that wide gap ; since it is in my power 
To o'erthrow law, and in one self- born hour 
To plant and o'erwhelm custom. Let me pass 
The same I am, ere ancient'st order was, 
Or what is now received. I witness to 
The times that brought them in ; so shall I do 
To the freshest things now reigning ; and make stale 
The glistering of this present, as my tale 
Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing, 
I turn my glass ; and give my scene such growing, 
As you had slept between. Leontes leaving 
The eifects of his fond jealousies ; so grieving. 
That he shuts up himself ; imagine me, 
Gentle spectators, that I now may be 
In fair Bohemia ; and remember well, 
I mentioned a son o'the king's, which Florizel 
I now name to you ; and with speed so pace 
To speak of Perdita, now grown in grace . 
Equal with wondering. What of her ensues, 
I ?ist not prophecy ; but let Time's news 

Be known, when 'tis brought forth : — a shepherd's daughter 
And what to her adheres, which follows after, 
Is the argument of Time. Of this allow, (1) 
If ever you have spent time worse ere now ; 
If never yet, that Time himself doth say, 

He wishes carncstlv vou never ma v. 
4 ' ' 



S8 winter's tale. [act rv. 

(TAa seasons^ Spriyig^ Siwimer^ Autuynrii and Winter ^ descend oi\ 
parallels^ R. and L. H. ; clouds open^ 3 G., a7id discover the God' 
dess of Night and her Star Nymphs retreating before the Ascent 
OF Phcebus in the Chariot of the Sun, Tableau, Sce7ie closes.) 



Scene II. — Bohemia, A Boom in the Palace o/Polixenes, 1 g. 
Enter Polixenes a?id Camillo, 1 e. l. h. 

Pol. 1 pray thee, good Camillo, be no more importunate to grant 
this. 

Ca?n. It is sixteen years sinc9 I saw my country'. Besides, the 
penitent king, my master, hath sent for me ; to whose feeling sorrows 
I might be some allay, which is another spur to my departure. 

Pol. Of that fatal country, Sicilia, prithee speak no more. Say 
to me, when saw'st thou the prince Plorizel, my son ? I have eyes 
under my service, which look upon his removedness, from whom I 
have this intelligence ; that he is seldom from the house of a most 
homely shepherd ; a man, they say, that from very nothing is grown 
into an unspeakable estate. 

Cam, I have heard, sir, of such a man, who hath a daughter of 
most rare note; the report of her is extended more than can be 
thought to begin from such a cottage. 

Pol. That's likewise part of my intelligence. But thou shalt ac- 
company us to the place ; where we will, not appearing what we are, 
have some question with the shepherd ; from whose simplicity I think 
it not luieasy to get the cause of my son's resort thither. Prithee, 
be my present partner in this business, and lay aside the thoughts of 
Sicilia. 

Cam, I obey your command. 

Pol. My best Camillo ! — We must disguise ourselves. 

(^Exeiinty 1 E. L. H.) 

Scene III. — Bohemia. A Boad near the Shephehd's Cottagey 1 o. 

Enter Autolycus, (2) singing^ 1 e. l. h. 

When daffodils begin to peer, 

W^ith heigh ! the doxy over the dale, — 
Why then comes in the sweet o'the year ; 

For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. (3) 
The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, — 

With, hey ! the- sweet birds, O how they sing ! — 
Doth set my pugging (4) tooth on edge ; 

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king. 
The lark, that tirra-lirra chants, — 

With, hey ! with, hey ! the thrush and the jay, — 
Are summer songs for me and my aunts, (5) 

While we lie tumbling in the hay. 

I have served Prince Florizel, and, in my time, wore three-pile ; (6) 
but no^T I am out of servico. 



BCINE III.] winter's tale. 39 

But shall I go mourn for that, my dear ? 

The pale moon shines by night ; 
And when 1 wander here and there, 

I then do most go right. 

If tinkers may have leave to live, 

And bear the sow-skin budget, 
Then my account I well may give, 

And in the stocks avouch it. 

My traffic is sheets ; when the kite builds, look to lesser linen. (7) My 
father named me Autolycus ; who, being, as I am, littered under 
Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. With 
dye, and drab, I purchased this caparison ; and my revenue is the 
Filly cheat. (8) (^Looking off^ r. h.) A prize ! a prize ! {Rides behind 
wingy R. H.) 

Enter Clown, 1 e. r. h., reading paper* 

Clo, Let me see ; — ever^^ *leven wether — tods ; (9) every tod 
^-ields — pound and odd shilling ; fifteen hundred shorn, — what 
comes the wool to r 

Aut. {Slyly advancing behind him. — Aside.) If the springe hold, 
the cock's mine. 

Clo. I cannot do't without counters. (10) — Let me see ; what am I 
to buy for our sheep- shearing feast ? Three pound of sugar ; Jive pound 

of currants ; rice what will this sister of mine do with rice r But 

my father hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it on. 
MacCf — dates, — none ; that's out of my note ; nutmegs, seve7i ; four 
pound of prunes, and as many of raisins othe sun. 

Aut, O that ever I was born ! {Grovelling on the ground.) 

Clo, {Turning round, much alarmed.) I'the name of me, 

Aut, O, help me, help me ! pluck but off these rags ; and then 

Clo. Alack, poor soul ! thou hast need of more rags to lay on 
thee, rather than have these off. 

Aut, I am robbed, sir, and beaten ; my money and apparel ta'en 
from me, and these detestable things put upon me. 

Clo, {Bendhig over him.) What, by a horseman or a footman r 

Azit. A footman, sweet sir, a footman. 

Clo. Indeed, he should be a footman, by the garments he hath 
left with thee ; if this be a horseman's coat, it hath seen very hot ser- 
vice. Lend me thy hand ; I'll help thee ! come, lend me thy hand. 

{The Clown assists hi?n up ; and as Autolycus rises, he puts his 
arm at the back of the Clown, and picks his icallet of purse, which he 
conceals.) 

Aut. O, good sir, tenderly, O ! 

Clo. Alas, poor soul ! 

Aut. O, good sir, softly, good sir. I fear, sir, my shoulder blade 
IS out. 

Clo, How, now : canst stand ? 

Aut. Softly, dear sir ; {picks his j^ocket ;) good sir, softly. You 
ha* done me a charitable office. 

Clo. Dost lack any money ? I have a little money for thee. 



(0 "^'ixter's tale. act IV. 

Au(. No, good sweet sir ; no, I beseech you, sir ; I have a kins- 
man not past three quarters of a mile hence, unto whom I was going ; 
I shall there have money, or any thing I want. (Clowx is about to 
take purse from his -wallet ; Autolycus hastily stops hi?n.) Offer me 
no money, I pray you ; that kills my heart. (11) 

Clo, What manner of fellow was he that robbed you ? 

Aut, A fellow, sir, that I have known to go about with trol-my- 
dames. (12) I knew him once a servant of the prince ; I cannot tell, 
good sir, for which of his virtues it was, but he was certainly Avhipped 
out of the court. 

Clo. His vices, you would say ; there's no virtue w^hipped out of 
the court. They cherish it, to make it stay there ; and yet it will no 
more but abide. (13) 

Aut. Vices, I would saj% sir. I know this man well : he hath 
been since an ape-bearer ; then a process-server, a bailiif ; then he 
compassed a motion (14) of the prodigal son, and married a tinker's wife 
withui a mile where my land and living lies ; and, having flown over 
many knavish professions, he settled only in rogue. Some call him 
Autolycus. 

Clo, Out upon him ! Prig, (lo) for my life, prig : he haunts 
wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings. 

Aut. Very true, su' ; he, sir, he ; that's the rogue that put me 
into this apparel. 

Clo, Not a more cowardly rogue in all Bohemia ; if you had but 
looked big, and spit at him, he'd have run. 

Aut. I must confess to you, sir, I am no fighter. I am false of 
heart that way ; and that he knew, I warrant him. 

Clo. How do you now ? 

Aut. Sweet sir, much better than I was ; I can stand, and walk. I 
will even take my leave of you, and pace softly towards my kinsman's. 

Clo. Shall I bring thee on the way r 

Aut. No, good-faced sir ; no, sweet sir. 

Clo. Then fare thee well ; I must go buy spicos for our sheep- 
shearing. 

Aut. Prosper you, sweet sir ! (Exit Clowx, 1 e. l. h.) Your 
purse is not hot enough to purchase your spice. I'll be with you at 
your sheep-shearing too. If I make not this cheat bring out another, 
and the shearers prove sheep, let me be unrolled, (16) and my name 
put m the book of virtue ! 

Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, 

And merrily hent (17) the stile-a : 
A merry heart goes all the day, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. (^Exitf 1 e. r. h.) 

Scene IV. — A Vineyard, 5 G. Shepherd's cottage y R. H. 3 e., door 
practical. Two garden chairs by cottage^ R. H. Set arbor, L. H. 3 E., 
and two garden chairs. Florizel and Perdita discovered seated cU 
arbor f l. h. 

Flo, These your unusual Avccds to each part of you 
Do give a life ; no shepherdess, but Flora, 
Peering in April's front. This your sheep-shearing 



(IC£NB III.] "NN'INTER' TALE. 41 

Is as a meeting of the petty gods, 
And you the queen on't. 

Per, Sir, my gracious lord, 

To chide at your extremes, it not becomes me ; 
O, pardon, that I name them. Your high self. 
The gracious mark (18) o'the land, you have obscured 
With a swain's wearing ; and me, poor lowly maid. 
Most goddesslike pranked up. 

Flo, (r. h. They rise) come down centre,) I bless the time, 
When my good falcon made her flight across 
Thy father's ground. 

Per, (L. H.) Now^ Jove afford you cause ! 

Even now I tremble 
To think your father, by some accident. 
Should pass this way, as you did. 

Flo, Thou dearest Perdita, 
With these forced (19) thoughts, I prithee, darken not 
The mirth of the feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair, 
Or not my father's. To this I am most constant, 
Though destiny say no. (^Pipe and tabor without y u. e. l. h.) Your 

guests are coming : 
Lift up your countenance, as it w^ere the day 
Of celebration of that nuptial, which 
We two have sworn shall come. 

Per, O Lady Fortune, 

Stand you auspicious ! 

Flo, See, your guests approach : 

Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, 
A.nd let's be red with mirth. 

(^Music. Pipe aiid tabor. Enter, v, E. L. H., shepherds^ shepherdesses^ 
(they bow to Perdita, then go up and remain in groups in eon* 
versatio7i,) Clowx, Mopsa, the old Shepherd, with Polixene3 
and Camillo disguised,) 

Shep, Fie, daughter ! When my old wife lived, upon 
This day, she was both pantler, butler, cook ; 
Both dame and servant ; welcomed all, served all : 
Would sing her song, and dance her turn ; now here, 
At upper end o'the table, now i'the middle. 
You are retired. 

As if you were a feasted one, and not 
The hostess of the meeting. Pray you, bid 
These unknown friends to us w^elcome ; for it is 
A way to make us better friends, more known. 
Come, quench your blushes ; and present yourself 
That which you are, mistress o'the feast. Come on. 
And bid us welcome to your sheep- shearing, 
As your good flock shall prosper 

Per, (c.) Welcome, sirs ! 

(Tb Polixenes and Camillo.) 
It is my father's will I should take on me 
The hostess-ship o'the day. — You're welcome, sirs ! 
4 * 



42 WINTER S TALE. [ACT IT. 

Cam, Good sooth, she is the queen of the curds and creams ! 

Per. Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. {Dorcas comes doion% 
R. c, and gives flowers to Peiidita,c.) Reverend sirs, 
For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep. 
Grace and remembrance be to you both, 
And welcome to our shearing ! 

Pol. (l. c.) Shepherdess, 

(A fair one are you,) well you fit our ages 
With flowers of winter. 

Per, Here's flowers for you ; 

Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram ; 
The marigold, that goes to bed with the sun, 
And with him rises weeping ; (20) these are flowers 
Of middle summer, and, I think, they are given 
To men of middle age. You are very welcome. 

Cam, I should leave grazing, were I of your flock, 
And only live by gazing. 

Per, Out, alas ! 

You'd be so lean, that blasts of January- 
Would blow you through and through. — Now, my fairest friend, 
I would 1 had some flowers o'the spring, that might 
Become your time of day ; and yours ; and yours ; 
That wear upon your virgin branches yet 
Your maiden honors growing ; daflbdils 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes. 
Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, 
That die unmarried, (21) ere they can behold 
Bright Phabus in his strength ; bold oxlips, and 
The crown-imperial. O, these I lack {To Florizel, on R. H.) 

To make y'ou garlands of; and, my sweet friend. 
To strew him o'er and o'er. 

Flo. (r. h.) What, like a corse ? 

Per, No, like a bank, for love to lie and play on ; 
Not like a corse : or if, — not to be buried, 
But quick, and in mine arms. 

(Florizel and Perdita retire iipy r. h., and sit,) 

Pol, This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever 
Ran on the green sward ; nothing she does or seems. 
But smacks of something greater than herself; 
Too noble for this place. 

{Retires tip, L. H., toiih Shepherd and Camillo.) 

Clo, Come on, strike up. 

Dor, Mopsa must be your mistress : marry, garlic, 
To mend her kissing with. 

Mop, Now in good time ! 

Clo. Is there no manners left among maids r Is there not milk- 
ing time, when you are going to bed, or kiln hole, to whistle ofl" these 
secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests ? 'Tis 
well they are whispering. Not a word, a word ; we stand upon our 
manners. Come, strike up. 



SCENE III.] winter's TALK. 43 

(^Music. Dance of shepherds and shepherdesses ; end of the dance ; 
they form various groups ; Polixenes and old Shepherd come 
forward.) 

Pol, Pray, good shepherd, what 
Fair swain is this, now talking with your daughter ? 

Shep. They call him Doricles, and he boasts himself 
To have a worthy feeding. 

He says he loves my daughter ; and, to be plain, 
I think there is not half a kiss to choose, 
Who loves another best. — If young Doricles 
Do light upon her, she shall bring him that 
Which he not dreams of. 

Enter Xea.therd, r. h. u. e. 

Neat, O, master, if you did but hear the pedler at the door, you 
would never dance again after a tabor and pipe ; no, the bagpipe could 
not move you. He sings several tunes faster than you'll tell money ; 
he utters them as he had eaten ballads, and all men's ears grew to his 
tunes. 

Clo, He could never come better ; he shall come in. 

Neat, He hath songs for man, or woman, of all sizes. He hath rib- 
bons of all the colors i' the rainbow; inkles, (22) caddisses, (23) cam- 
brics, lawns. Why, he sings them over, as they were gods or goddesses. 

Clo, Prithee, bring him in ; and let him approach singing. 
(ExW^BXTUE-RB, u. E. R. H.) I lovc a ballad but even too well, if 
it be doleful matter ; merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing, in- 
deed, and sung lamentably. 

Enter Autolycus, singing, u. e. r. n., and the Neatherd ; shepherds, 
clowns, and shepherdesses gather round him in c. ; old Shepherd, 
Polixenes, and Camillo retire up l. h. in conversatio7i ; Perdita 
a7id Plorizel seated on r. h. 3 e. 

Aut, Will you buy any tape, 
Or lace for your cape. 

My dainty duck, my dear-a ? 
Any silks, any thread, 
Any toys for your head, 

Of the new'st and fin'st, lin'st wear-a ? 
Come to the pedler ; 
Money's a meddler. 

That doth utter all men's ware-a. 

Mop, Come, you promised me a tawdry lace, (24) and a pair of 
Bweet gloves. (25) 

Dor, He hath promised you more than that, or there be liars. 

Mop. He hath paid you all he promised you ; may be, he has paid 
you more. 

Clo, Have I not told thee how I was cozened by the way, and lost 
all my money ? 



44 winter's tale. [act r?. 

Aut. And, indeed, sir, there are cozeners abroad ; therefore it be- 
hooves men to be wary. 

Clo. What hast here r ballads ? 

Mop. 'Pray now, buy some. I love a ballad \n print, a' -life ; for 
then we are sure they are true. 

Aut. Here's one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer's wife was 
brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden ; and how she 
longed to eat adders' heads, and toads carbonadoed. (All look sur- 
prised.) 

Mop, Is it true, think you ? 

Aut* Very true ; and but a month old. 

Dor. Bless me from marrying a usurer ! 

Aut, Here's the midwife's name to't, one mistress Taleporter ; and 
five or six honest wives, that were present. Why should I carry lies 
abroad ? 

Mop. 'Pray you now, buy it. 

Clo, Come on, lay it by. And let's first see more ballads; we'll 
buy the other things anon. 

Aut, Here's another ballad, of a fish, that appeared upon the 
coast, on Wednesday the fourscore of April, forty thousand fathom 
above water, and sung his ballad against the hard hearts of men ; it 
w^as thought she was a woman, and was turned into a cold fish, for 
she would not exchange flesh with one that loved her. 

Dor, Is it true, think you ? 

Aut. Five justices' hands at it ; and witnesses, more than my pack 
will hold. 

Clo, Lay it by too. Another. (All delighted.) 

Aut, This is a merry ballad ; but a very pretty one. 

Mop, Let's have some merry ones. 

Aut, Why, this is a passing merry one ; and goes to the tunc of 
Tioo maids wooing a man. 

Mop, We can sing it, if thou' It bear a part. 

Dor, We had the tune on't a month ago. 

Aut, Have at it with you. 

TRIO. — AuTOLYCUS, MopsA, and Dorcas. 

A, Get you hence, for I must go ; 
Where, it fits not you to know. 

D, Whither? M. O whither r D, Whither r 
M, It becomes thy oath full well, 
Thou to me thy secrets tell. 

D, Me too, let me go thither. 
M, Or thou go'st to the grange, or mill ; 
D, If to either, thou dost ill. 

A, Neither. D, What, neither r A, Neither. 
D, Thou hast sworn my love to be ; 
M, Thou hast sworn it more to me. 

Tlion, whither go'st ? Say, whither > 

Ch, We'll have this song out anon by ourselves. My father and 



SCENE III. J AVINTEK'S TALE. 45 

the gentleman are in sad talk, and we'll not trouble them. (PoLix- 
ENES and Shepherd close conversation near arbor., L. H.) Come, 
bring away thy pack after me. Wenches, I'll buy for you both. — 
Peddler, let's have the first choice Follow me, girls. 
Aut, {Aside,) And you shall pay well for 'em. 

Will you buy any tape, 
Or lace for your cape, 
My dainty duck, my dear- a ? 

Enter a Neatherd, u. e. l. h. 

Neat* Master, there is three carters, three shepherds, three neat- 
herds, three swineherds, that have made themselves all men of hair ; 
they call themselves sal tiers ; (26) and they have a dance, which the 
wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are not in't ; 
but they themselves are o' the mind (if it be not too rough for some, 
that know little but bowling) it will please plentifully. 

Shep. Away! we'll none on't ; here has been too much homely 
foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you. 

Pol, You weary those that refresh us. Pray, let's see these four 
threes of herdsmen. 

Neat, One three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danced 
before the king ; and not the worst of the three, but jumps twelve 
foot and a half by the squire. (27) 

Shep, Leave your prating ; since these good men are pleased, let 
them come in ; but quickly now. 

Neat, Why, they stay at door, sir. {Exitt v, e. l. h.) 

Reenter Neatherd, %cith twelve rustics habited like satyrs, u. e. l. h. ; 
end of satyrs' dance ; exeunt twelve satyrs, u. E. L. h. ; Clown, Au- 
TOLYCus, Mopsa, Dorcas, Neatherd, shepherds and shepherdesses, 
into cottage, R. h. ; Polixenes and old Shepherd come down, c. ; 
Florizel and Perdita doicn R. h. 

Pol, ( To Shepherd.) O, father, you'll know more of that hereaf- 
ter. (28) — - {Aside.) How now, fair shepherd r — {To Florizel.) 
Sooth, when I was young, I was wont 
To load my she with knacks. I would have ransacked 
The pedler's silken treasury, and have poured it 
To her acceptance ; you have let him go, 
And nothing marted'(29) with him. 

Flo, She prizes not such trifles as these are. 
O, hear me breathe my life 
Before this ancient sir, who, it should seem. 
Hath sometime loved. I take thy hand ; this hand, 
As soft as dove's down, and as white as it ; 
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fanned snow, 
That's bolted (30) by the northern blasts twicQ o'er. 

Cam, How prettily the young swain seems to wash 
The hand was fair before ! — {To Polixenes.) You have put him out# 
But to your protestation ; let me hear 
What you profess. 



46 -winter's tale. [act iv. 

Flo» Do, and be witness to't. (Points to Camillo.) 

PoL (l. h.) And this my neighbor too ? 

Flo. (r. c.) And he, and more 

Than he, and men ; the earth, the heavens, and all ; 
That, — were I crowned the most imperial monarch, 
Thereof most worthy ; were I the fairest youth 
That ever made eye swerve ; had force, and knowledge, 
More than was ever man's, — I would not prize them, 
Without her love ; for her employ them all ; 
Commend them, and condemn them, to her service, 
Or to their own perdition. 

S/iep, But, my daughter, 
Say you the like to him ? 

Per. (r. H.) I cannot speak 
So well, nothing so well ; no, nor mean better. 
B> the pattern of my own thoughts I cut out 
The purity of his. 

ShejJ. Take hands ; a bargain ; — 

And, friends unknown, you shall bear witness to't. 
I give my daughter to him, and will make 
Her portion equal his. 

Flo. O, that must be 

I* the virtue of your daughter : one being dead, 
I shall have more than you can dream of yet ; 
Enough then for your wonder. 

S/w]). (^Goes beticeen them^ and takes a hand of each ; after join'tn^ 
hands^ goes to R. h.) Come, your hand ; — 
And, daughter, yours. 

Pol. Soft, swain, a while, 'beseech you ; 

Have you a father ? 

Flo. I have. But what of him ? 

Pol. Knows he of this ? 

Flo. He neither does, nor shall. 

Pol. Methinks a father 
Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest 
That best becomes the table. 
Keason, my son, 

vShould choose himself a wife ; but as good reason, 
The father (all whose joy is nothing else 
But fair posterity) should hold some counsel 
In such a business. 

Flo. I yield all this ; 

But, for some other reasons, my grave sir, 
AVhich 'tis not fit you know, I not acquaint 
My father of this business. 

Pol, Let him know't. 

Flo. He shall not. 

PoL Prithee, let him. 

Flo, No, he must not. 

Shep, Let him, my son ; he shall not need to grieve 
At knowing of thy choice. 



HCENE III. J winter's TALE. 47 

Flo, Come, come, he must not. — 

Our contract mark. 

Pol, Mark your divorce, young sir. 

{Discovering himself,) 
Whom son I dare not call ; thou art too base 
To be acknowledged. Thou a sceptre's heir, 

That thus affect'st a sheep-hook ! ( Crosses to Shep.) Thou, old traitor, 
I am sorry that, by hanging thee, I can but 
Shorten thy life one week. 

Per. O, my heart ! 

Undone, undone ! I cannot speak, nor think ; 
N:jr dare to know that which I know. 

(^Exit Shepherd, r. h. 3 e., into cottage.^ 

Pol, A nd thou, fresh piece 
Of excellent witchcraft, who, of force, must know. 
The royal fool thou cop'st with. 
I'll have thy beauty scratched with briers, and made 
More homely than thy state. — For thee, fond boy, — 
If I may ever know thou dost but sigh, 
That thou no more shalt never see this knack, (as never 
I mean thou shalt,) we'll bar thee from succession ; 
Not hold thee of our blood ; 
Mark thou my words ; 
Follow us to the court. Camillo, come. 
And you enchantment. 
If ever, henceforth, thou 
These rural latches to his entrance open, 
I will devise a death as cruel for thee. 
As thou art tender to't. Follow, sir. (^Exity u. e. l. H.J 

Per. (c. ; Camillo stands back, c.) Even here undone ! 
I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, 
I was about to speak, and tell him plainly* 
The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court. 
Hides not his visage from our cottage, but 
Looks on alike. — ( To Florizel, who takes her hand,) Will't please 

you, sir, begone ? 
I told you M'hat would come of this. 'Beseech you, 
Of your own state take care. This dream of mine, — 
Being now" awake, I'll queen it no inch further, 
But milk my ewes, and weep. 

Flo, Why look you so upon me ? 
I am but sorry, not afeard ! delayed, 
But nothing altered ! What I was, I am. 
Lift up thy looks : — 
From my succession wipe niC, father ! 1 
Am heir to my affection. 

Cam, {Comes down^ L. c.) Be advised. 

Flo, I am ; and by my fancy : (31) if my reason 
Will thereto be obedient, I have reason ; 
If not, my senses, better pleased with madness, 
Do bid it welcome. 

Cam, This is desperate, sir. 



4 



iS winter's tale. \xcs rfi 

Flo, So call it ; but it docs fulfil my vow ; 
Camillo, not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may 
Be thereat gleaned : for all the sun sees, or 
The close earth Avombs, or the profound seas hide 
In unknown fathoms, will I break my oath 
To this my fair beloved. Therefore, I pray you, 
As you have e'er been my father's honored friend, 
AVhen he shall miss me, (as, in faith, I mean not 
To see him any more,) cast your good counsels 
Upon his passion. — I am put to sea 
With her whom here I cannot hold on shore ; 
And, to our need, (32) most opportune, I have 
A vessel rides fast by. — Hark, Perdita. 

Cam, My Lord Florizel, I'll hear you by and by. 

( Goes tip with Peildita.^ 
He's irremovable ; 

Resolved for flight. Now were I happy, if 
His gxDing I could frame to serve my turn ; 
Save him from danger, do him love and honor ; 
Purchase the sight again of dear SiciHa, 
And that unhappy king, my master, whom 
I so much thirst to see. 

Flo. {^Comes doicn.) Sir ! it shall be so. Xo'<v, soo** r^jar-L^ 
I am so fraught with curious business, that 
I leave out ceremony. 

Cam, Have you thougiit on 

A place, whereto you'll go ? 

Flo. Not any yet. 

Cam. Then list to mc. 
This follows, — if you will not change youi pui^c^e, 
But undergo this flight ; — MaKe for Siciiia. 
And there present yourself, and your fair piincese, 
(For so, I see, she must be,) 'fore Leontes 
The king ; — INIethinks I see 
Leontes, opening his free arms, and weeping 
His welcomes forth ; asks thee, their sen, loi'gU cr.sso, 
As 'twere i' the father's person ; kisses the hands 
Of your fresh princess. 

Flo, Worthy Camillo, 

What color for my visitation shall I 
Hold up before him ? ^ 

Cam, Sent by the king, your father> 

To greet him, and to give him comforts. Sir, 
The manner of your bearing towards him, with 
W^hat you, as from your father, shall deliver, 
(Things known betwixt us three,) I'll ^vTite you down 
And with my best endeavors, in your absence, 
Your discontenting father I will strive 
To qualify, and bring him up to liking. 

Flo* I am bound to you. 

There is some sap in this 



SCENE in. -H-INTEn's TALE. ^g 

Ente,- AuTOLVcrs, 3 e. b h ^cho, seeing them, cautiously retires ie. 
kind cottage^ R. h. 

But, O the thorns we stand upon ! Camillo. -« 
Preserver of my father, now of me ; - ' 

How shall we do ? 
We are not furnished like Bohemia's son ; 

JVor shall appear in Sicilia 

Cam, -KT 1 , 

nn^Iin""/ *''^': ^ ^'""^ y°" k"°^^ my fortunes 
Do aU he there : it shaU be so my care 

^lo have you royally appointed, as if 

liie scene you play were mine. 

it. iftX'p^ >aX-L!°' -• ^ -^^ ^'^^ t-k of it. 

Come, dearest Perdita ; and fortune speed us l" 

Cam Tl,o . •& (-^f^""* Florizel anrf Perdita. 1 e h b ■» 
wt fV J ^ ^^'^*®'' ^Peed the better. "•■' 

What I do next, shall be to tell the king 
Ut this escape, and whither they are bound • 
Wherein my hope is, I shall so prevtir ' 
lo force him after ; in whose company 
I shall review Siciha ; for whose sight 
1 nave a woman's longing. . „ ., 

occasion, and exchan "ed garments ^ib bf^ T* \^^^'' P^"^* °^ 
on his back, and the pack bv hfS 1 / the Pedlcr's clothes are 
<!olrI oil ™ 1 P y ^^ ^^"S as empty as his Dockets! T t,„j 

pettitoJ till he had bo h t^P new song, that he would not stir his 
his daughter and tbpK '"'"' °T' '" '"* « ^vhoobub against 

Chaff. ATc\^:^rj^i^TL'^^i-i.?'^-^'^^ ^'^ ^^ 



60 -winter's tale. [act rv. 

Skep, (IVifhoutt n. H. 3 E.) Come along. 

Aut, Aside, aside; here is more matter for a hot brain. Every 
lane's end yields a careful man work. (^Retires behind cottage, R. h.) 

E?tter Clown aJid Shepherd, 3 e. r. ii., from cottage, 

Clo, See, see ; what a man you are now ! There is no other 
way but to tell the king she's a changeling, and none of your flesh 
and blood. 

Shejy* Nay, but hear me. 

Clo, Nay, but hear me. She being none of your flesh and blood, 
your flesh and blood has not oflended the king ; and so your flesh 
and blood is not to be punished by him. Show those things you 
found about her ; those secret tilings, all but what she has with her. 
This being done, let the law go whistle ; I warrant you. 

iShep, I will tell the king all, every word, yea, and his son's 
pranks too ; who, I may say, is no honest man neither to his father, 
uor to me, to go about to make me the king's brother-in-law. 

Clo, Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest ofl" you could have 
been to h;m ; and then your blood had been the dearer, by I know 
how (34) much an ounce. 

Aut. Very wisely ; puppies ! (^Aslde^ at hack^ R. ii.) 

Shep, Well, let us to the king ; there is that in this fardel vAW 
make him scratch his beard. 

Aut, {Comes foncardt c. ; Cloavn and Shepherd take off their 
hats,) How now, rustics ? "Whither axe you bound ? 

Shep, To the palace, an it like your worship. 

Aut, Your aftairs there? what? with whom? the condition of 
that fardel, (35) the place of your dwelling, your names, your ages, 
of what having, (36) breeding, and any tiling that is fitting* to be 
known, discover. 

Shep. Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir r 

Aut, Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Scest thou not 
the air of the court in these enfold! ngs : Hath not my gait in it the 
measure of the court r (37) Keflect I not on thy baseness court con- 
tempt ? Thinkest thou, for that I insinuate, or toze (38) from thee thy 
business, I am therefore no courtier ? I am courtier cap-a-pie, and 
one that will either push on, or pluck back thy business there ; 
whereupon, I command thee to open thy affair. 

Shep, My business, sir, is to the king. 

Aut. What advocate hast thou to him ? 

Shep. I know not, an't like you. 

Clo Advocate's the court word for a x^^easant ; say you have 
none. 

Shep. None, sir ; I have no pheasant, cock, nor hen. (39) 

Aut, How blessed are we, that are not simple men ! 
Yet nature might have made me as these are ; 
Therefore I'll not disdain. ( Walking up and doion conceitedly.) 

Clo. This cannot but be a great courtier. 

Shep, His garments are rich, but he wears them not handsomely 
(AuTOLYCUS picks his teeth with his dagger.) 



SCENE III.] -NVINTEr'S TALE. 51 

Ch* A great man, I'll warrant ; I know, by the picking on*3 
teeth. 

AuU The fardel there ? what's i'the fardel ? Wherefore that 
box ? 

^hep. Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box which 
none must know but the king, and Avhich he shall know within tliis 
hour, if I may come to the speech of him. 

Aut, Age, thou hast lost thy labor. 

Shep. Why, sir ? 

Aut, The king is not at the palace ; he is gone aboard a new 
ship to purge melancholy, and air himself. For, if thou be'st capable 
of things serious, thou must know, the king is full of grief. 

Shep, So 'tis said, sir ; about his son, that should have married a 
shepherd's daughter. 

Aut, If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly ; the curses 
he shall have, the tortures he shall feel, will break the back of man, 
the heart of monster. 

Clo* Think you so, sir ? 

Aut. Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy, and ven- 
geance bitter ; but those that are germane (40) to him, though removed 
fifty times, shall all come under the hangman ; which, though it be 
great pity, yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whisthng rogue, a ram 
tender, to offer to have his daughter come into grace ! Some say he 
shall be stoned ; but that death is too soft for him, say I. Draw our 
throne into a sheep-cote ! All deaths are too few, the sharpest too 
easy. 

Clo, Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, an't like you, sir ? 

Aut» He has a son, who shall be flayed alive ; then, 'nointed over 
with honey, set on the head of a wasp's nest ; then stand till he be 
three quarters and a dram dead ; then recovered again with aqua- 
vitcB, or some other hot infusion ; then, raw as he is, and in the hot- 
test day prognostication proclaims, (41) shall he be set against a brick 
wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he is to 
behold him with flies blo\^^l to death. But what talk we of these 
traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at, their offences 
being so capital ? Tell me, for you seem to be honest, plain men, 
{holding out his hand,) what you have to the king ; being something 
gently considered, I'll bring 3'ou where he is aboard, tender yoiu* 
persons to his presence, whisper him in your behalfs ; and, if it be in 
man, besides the kmg, to effect your suits, here is man shall do it* 
(^Crosses L. H.) 

Clo» He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give 
him gold, and no more ado. Remember — stoned, and flayed alive ! 

Shep, An't please you, sir, to undertake the business for us, here 
is that gold I have. {Offering a purse,) I'll make it as much 
more, and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you. {Push- 
ing Clowx towards Autolycus.) 

Aut, After I have done what I promised ? 

Shep, Ay, sir. 

Aut, Well, give me the moiety, ( Take$ purse from Shepherd.) 
A.re you a party in this business } 



53 l;^'INTER's tale. [act t. 

Clo, 111 some sort, sir ; but, though ray case be a pitiful one, 1 
hope I shall not be flayed out of it. (Kneels.) 

A'ut, O, that's the case of the shepherd's son, — hang him, he'll 
be made an example. Walk before toward the seaside ; go, I will but 
look upon the hedge, and follow you. 

Clo, We are blessed in this man, as I may say, even blessed. 

Shep, Let's before, as he bids us ; he was provided to do us good. 
(Exeunt Shepherd a7id Clow^n, 1 e. l. h.) 

Aut, If I had a mind to be honest, I see, fortune would not suifer 
me ; she drops booties in my mouth. I am courted now" with a dou- 
ble occasion ; gold, and a means to do the prince my master good ; 
which, who knows how that may turn back to my advancement ? I 
will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him; if he think it 
lit to shore them again, and that the complaint they have to the king 
concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue, for being so far offi- 
cious ; for I am proof against that title, and what shame else belongs 
to't. To him will I present them ; there may be matter in it. 

(Exitf L. H. 1 E.) 

END OF ACT IV. 



ACT Y. 

ScEXE I. — Sicilia* The Palace, Kmg*s Closet^ 3 G. ; table and two 

chairs i c. 

Leoxtes, in black, seated R. of table ; Paulina, in black, seated L. oj 
table ; Dion and Cleomenes standing on R. K. 

Cleo, Sir, you have done enough, and have perforrrfid 
A saintlike sorrow. At the last, 
Do as the heavens have done ; forget your evil ; 
With them, forgive yourself. 

Lion, Whilst I remember 

Her and her virtues, I cannot forget 
My blemishes in them, and so stir think of 
The wrong I did myself, w'hich y^hn so much, 
That heirless it hath made my kingdom, and 
Destroyed the sweet'st companion that e'er man 
Bred his hopes out of. 

Paul, True, too true, my lord. 

If, one by one, you wedded all the world. 
Or, from the all that are, took something good. 
To make a perfect woman, she, you killed. 
Would be unparalleled. 



SCENE I.] winter's TALE. M 

Leon, I think so. Killed ! 

She I killed ! I did so ; but thou strik'st me 
Sorely, to say I did ; it is as bitter 
Upon thy tongue, as in my thought. Now, good now, 
Say so but seldom. 

Cleo. Not at all, good lady. 

You might have spoken a thousand things that would 
Have done the time more benefit, and graced 
Your kindness better. 

Paul, You are one of those, 

Would have him wed again. 

Cleo, If you would not so, 

You pity not the state, nor the remembrance 
Of his most sovereign dame ; consider Uttle, 
What dangers, by his highness' fail of issue, 
May drop upon his kingdom, and devour 
Incertain lookers-on. 

PauL There is none worthy 

Kespecting her that's gone. Besides, thegoi 
Will have fulfilled their secret purposes ; 
For has not the divine Apollo said, 
Is't not the tenor of his oracle. 
That king Leontes shall not have an heir, 
Till his lost child be found ? which, that it shall, 
Is all as monstrous to our human reason, 
As my Antigonus to break his grave. 
And come again to me ; who, on my life^ 
Did perish with the infant. 

Leon, Good Paulina, - 
Who hast the memory of Hermione, 
I know, in honor, — O, that ever I 
Had squared me to thy counsel ! — Then, even n«w, 
I might have looked upon my queen's full eyes : 
Have taken treasure from her lips, 

Paul, And left thsui 

More rich for what they yielded- 

Leo7i. Thou speak' st truth. 

No more such wives ; therefore no wife. I'll have no wife, Pauliiuu 

Paul, I should so. Will you swear 
Never to marry but by my free leave ? 

Leo7i, Never, Paulina ; so be blessed my spirit ! 

Paul, Then, good my lords, bear witness to his oath. 

Cleo, You tempt him overmuch. 

Paul, 1 have done. 

Yet, if my lord will maixy, give me the office 
To choose you a queen, sir ; but she shall be such, 
As, walked your first queen's ghost, it should take joy 
To see her in your arms. 
6* 



5^ winter's tale. [act t, 



Enter Phocion, 1 e. r. h. 

P/io, One that gives out himself prince Florizel, 
Son of Polixenes, with his princess, (she 
The fairest I have yet beheld,) desires access 
To your high presence. 

Leo7i, What with him ? He comes not 

Like to his father's greatness. His approach, 
So out of circumstance, and sudden, tells us 
'Tis not a visitation framed, but forced 
By need and accident. What train ? 

'Pho, But few, 

And those but mean. 

Leo7i, His princess, say you, wdth him ? 

Pho. Ay ; the most peerless piece of earth, I think, 
That e'er the sun shone bright on. 

Leofi, Go, Cleomenes; 

Yourself, assisted with your honored friends, 
Bring them to our embracement. 

(^Exeunt Cleomenes and Phocion, 1 e. r. h.) 
Still 'tis strange 
He thus should steal upon us. 

Paul, {Rises.) Had our prince 

(Jewel of children) seen this hour, he had paired 
Well with this lord ; there was not full a month 
Between their births. 

Leon. Prithee, no more ; thou know'st \V) 

He dies to me again, when talked of. Sure, 
When I shall see this gentleman, thy speeches 
Will bring me to consider that which may 
Unfurnish me of reason. — They are come. 

Pe€nter Cleomenes and Phocion with Florizel, Perdita, and sis 
lords ; Cleomenes and Phocion cross behind to l. h. 

Most dearly welcome, prince, 

And your fair princess, goddess ! 

Most welcome, sir ! Were I but twenty- one, 

Your father's image is so hit in you. 

His very air, that I should call you brother, 

As I did him. 

Flo. (r. h.) Great sir, by his command 
Have I here touched Sicilia ; and from him 
Give you all greetings, that a king, at friend, (2) 
Can send his brother, whom he loves 
More than all the sceptres, 
And those that bear them, living. 

Leon, (c.) O, my brother, 

'Good gentleman !) the \\Tongs I have done thee, sur 
Afresh within me. Welcome hither. 



«CEXE I.] AVINTER'S TALE. 65 

A.S is the spring to the earth. And hath he too 
Exposed this paragon to the fearful usage 
(At least, ungentle) of the dreadful Neptune, 
To greet a man not worth her pains ; much less 
The adventure of her person ? 

Flo, Good, my lord, 

She came from Libya. (^Passing Perdita and Leontes.) 

Leo7i, Where the warlike Smalus, 

That noble, honored lord, is feared and loved ? 

Flo. Most royal sir, from thence ; from him, whose daughter 
His tears proclaimed his, parting with her. My best train 
I have from your Sicilian shores dismissed ; 
Who for Bohemia bend, to signify 
Not only my success in Libya, sir. 
But my arrival, and my wife's, in safety, 
Here, where we are. 

Leon, The blessed gods 

Purge all infection from our air, whilst you 
Do climate here ! What might I have been, 
Might I a son and daughter now have looked on, 
Such goodly things as you ? {Trumpet sounds without, R, H.) 

Filter Archidamus and six attendants, 1 e. r. h. 

Arch, Please you, great sir, 
Bohemia greets you from himself, by me ; 
Desires you to attach his son ; who has 
(His dignity and duty both cast off) 
Fled from his father, from his hopes, and with 
A shepherd's daughter. 

Leon, Where's Bohemia ? speak. 

Arch, Here in the city ; I now come from him. 
I speak amazedly ; and it becomes 
My marvel and my message. To your court 
Whiles he was hastening, (in the chase, it seems, 
Of this fair couple,) meets he on the way 
The father of this seeming lady, and 
Her brother, having both their country quitted 
With this young prince. 

Flo, Camillo has betrayed me 

Whose honor, and whose honesty, till now 
Endured all weathers. 

Arch, Lay't so to his charge ; 

He's with the king your father. 

Leon, Who? Camillo? 

Arch, Camillo, sir, who now 
Has these poor men in question. (3) 

Per, O, my poor father ! — 

The Heaven sets spies upon us, will not have 
Our contract celebrated. 

Leon, You are married ? 



56 winter's tale. [act t. 

Flo. We are not, sir, nor are we like to be ; 
The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first. 

Leon, My lord, 

Is this the daughter of a king. 

Flo, She is. 

When once she is my wife. 

Leon, That once I see, by your good father's speed, 
Will come on very slowly. I am sorry 
Your choice is not so rich in worth (4) as beauty, 
That you might well enjoy her. 

Flo\ (Tb Perdita.) Dear, look up. 

Though fortune, visible an enemy, 
Should chase us with my father, power no jot 
Hath she to change our loves. — 'Beseech you, sir, 
Remember since you owed no more to time 
Than I do now. With thought of such affections, 
Step forth mine advocate ; at your request. 
My father will grant precious things as trifles. 

Leon, (c.) Would he do so, I'd beg your precious mistress, 
Which he counts but a trifle. 

Paul, (l. c.) Sir, my liege, 

Your eye hath too much youth in't. Not a month 
'Fore your queen died, she was more w^orth such gazes 
Than what you look on now. 

Leon, I thought of her. 

Even in these looks I made. — But your petition {to Florizel.) 
Is yet unanswered ; I will to your father ; 
Your honor not o'er thrown by your desires, 
I am a friend to them and you ; upon which errand 
I now go toward him ; therefore, follow me. 

And mark w^hat way I make. (^Crosses to R. h., turns, and looks in^ 
quiriiigly at Perdita.) Come, good my lord. 

(^Trumpety r. h. Exeunt^ 1 E. r. h., Paulina, Leontes, Phocion, 
Florizel, Cleomenes, Perdita, Archidamus, and attendants,^ 



Scene II. — Slcilia, A Square before the Palace, 1 G. 

Enter Phocion and Dion, 1 e. r. h. 

Dion, 'Beseech you, sir, wxre you present at this relation ? 

Pho, I Avas by at the opening of the fardel, heard the old 
shepherd deliver the manner how he found it ; whereupon, after a 
little amazedness, we were all commanded out of the chamber ; only 
this, methought, I heard the shepherd say, he found the child. 

Dio7i, I would most gladly know the issue of it. 

Pho, I make a broken delivery of the business. — But the changes 
I perceived in the king and Camillo were very notes of admiration. 
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. 

Enter Thasius, 1 e. l. n. 
Here comes a gentleman, that, happily, knows more. The news. 



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67 



Thas. Nothing but bonfires. The oracle is fulfilled; the king's 
daughter is found ; such a deal of wonder is broken out within this 
hour, that ballad-makers cannot be able to express it. 

Enter Cleomenes, 1 e. r. h. 

How goes it now, sir ? This news, which is called true, is so like an 
old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. Has the king 
found his heir ? 

Cleo. Most true ; if ever truth were pregnant by circumstance. 
The mantle of Queen Hermione ; her jewel about the neck of it ; the 
letters of Antigonus, found with it ; the majesty of the creature, in 
resemblance of the mother, — and many other evidences, proclaim 
her, with all certainty, to be the king's daughter. Did you see the 
meeting of the two kings ? {^Crosses c.) 

Dioft, No. 

Cleo, Then have you lost a sight, which was to be seen, cannot be 
spoken of. There might you have beheld one joy crown another. 
Tliere was casting up of eyes, holding up of hands ; with countenance 
of such distraction, that they were to be known by garment, not by 
favor. (5) Our king, being ready to leap out of himself for joy of his 
found daughter, as if that joy were now become a loss, cries, O thy 
mother ! tJiy mother ! then asks Bohemia forgiveness ; then embraces 
his son-in-law ; then again worries he his daughter with clipping (6) 
her ; now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by, like a 
weather-bitten conduit of many king's reigns. (7) I never heard of 
such another encounter, which lames report to follow it, and undoes 
description to do it. 

Pho, "What, pray you, became of Antigonus, that carried hence 
the child ? 

Cleo, Like an old tale still, which will have matter to rehearse, 
though credit be asleep, and not an ear open. He was torn to pieces 
with a bear; this avouches the shepherd's son, who has not only his 
innocence (which seems much) to justify him, but a handkerchief and 
rings of his, that Paulina knows. 

Thas, What became of his bark and his followers ? 

Cleo, Wrecked the same instant of their master's death, and in 
the view of the shepherd ; so that all the instruments, which aided to 
expose the child, were even then lost, when it was found. But, O, 
the noble combat, that, 'twixt joy and sorrow, was fought in Paulina ! 
She had one eye declined for the loss of her husband ; another ele- 
vated that the oracle was fulfilled. She lifted the princess from the 
earth, and so locks her in embracing, as if she would pin her to her 
heart, that she might no more be in danger of losing. 

Pho, The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings and 
princes ; for by such was it acted. 

Cleo, One of the prettiest touches of all, was, when at the relation 
of the queen's death, with the manner how she came to it, (bravely 
confessed and lamented by the king,) how attentiveness wounded his 
daughter ; till, from one sign of dolor to another, she did, with an 
alas ! I would fain say, bleed tears ; for I am sure my heart wept 
blood. 



68 winter's tale. [act t. 

Dicni, Are they returned to the court ? 

Cleo. No ; the princess, hearing of her mother's statue, which is 
in the keeping of Pauhna, — a piece many years in doing, and now 
newly performed by that rare Italian master, Julio Romano. Thither, 
with all greediness of affection, are they gone. 

Pho, For she hath privately, twice or thrice a day, ever since the 
death of Hermione, visited that removed (8) house. Shall we thither, 
and with our company piece the rejoicing ? 

Cleo. Who would be thence, that has the benefit of access ? Every 
wink of an eye, some new grace will be born ; our absence makes us 
unthrifty to our knowledge. Let's along. 

{Exeunt Cleomenes, Dion, Phocion, Thasius, 1 e. l. h.) 

Enter Shepherd mid Clown, 1 e. r. h. 

Shejy, Come, boy ; I am past more children ; but thy sons and 
daughters will be all gentlemen born. 

Enter Autolycus, 1 e. l. h. 

CIo, {Meetijig Autolycus, l. h.) You are well met, sir. You 
denied to fight with me this other day, because I was no gentleman 
bom. See you these clothes ? Say, you see them not, and think me 
still no gentleman born ; you were best say, these robes are not gen- 
tlemen born. Give me the lie ; do ; and try whether I am not now 
a gentleman bom. 

Aut. I know, you are now, sir, a gentleman born. 

Clo, Ay, and have been so any time these four hours. 
• Shep, And so have I, boy. 

Clo, So you have ; — but I was a gentleman born before my 
father ; for the king's son took me by the hand, and called me 
brother ; and then the two kings called my father brother ; and then 
the prince my brother, and the princess my sister, called my father, 
father ; and so we wept ; and there was the first gentlemanlike tears 
that ever we shed. 

Shep* We may live, son, to shed many more. 

Clo, Ay ; or else 'twere hard luck, being in so preposterous estate 
as we are. 

Aut, I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the faults I have 
committed to your worship, and tc^ give m.e your good report to the 
prince, my master. 

Shep, 'Prithee, son, do ; for M ? mast be gentle, noAV we are gen- 
tlemen. 

Clo, Thou wilt amend thy life ? 

Aut, Ay, an it like your good worship. 

Clo, Give me thy hand. (Autolycus offers his hand; the Clown 
rejects it,) Hast nothing in it ? Am I not a courtier } I must be 
gently considered. Seest thou not the air of the court in these en- 
foldings ? Has not my gait in it the measure of the court r (/m»- 
tates Autolycus' action ind manner ^ as in Act IV.) 

Aut, Here is what gold I have, sir. (Givc^ purse.) 



BCENE III.] winter's TALE. 69 

Clo, Well, I will swear to the prince, thou art as honest a true 
fellow as any is in Bohemia. 

Shep, You may say it, but not swear it. 

Clo, Not swear it, now I am a gentleman ? Let boors and frank- 
lins (9) say it, I'll swear it. 

Shep, How if it be false, son ? 

Clo, If it be ne'er so false, a true gentleman may swear it in the 
behalf of his friend. — And I'll swear to the prince, thou art a tall (10) 
fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt not be drunk ; but I know thou 
art no tall fellow of thy hands, and that thou wilt be drunk ; but I'll 
swear it. (Trumpet soimdst L. h.) Hark ! the kings and the princes, 
our kindred, are going to see the queen's picture. Come, follow us ; 
we'll be thy good masters. (11) 

AtU, (Aside,) O, sweet sir ! ' 

I have bribed him with his own money. 

(Exeunt Clown, Shepherd, mid Autolycus, 1 e. l. h.) 



Scene III. — Peristyle of the Palace, 4 and 5 G. A71 arch, c, 
with scarlet cui^tains down, back of which is pedestal and statue of 
Hermione ; flourish ; Polixenes, Camillo, Paulina, Leontes, 
Perdita, Elorizel, Archidamus, Phocion, Thasius, Dion, Em- 
ilia, Lamia, Cleomenes, Hero, lords and ladies of the court. 



SITUATIONS. 

Arch, 4 a. 
Cleo3ienes. Lords. Lords. 

Phocion. Hero. Ladies. Ladies. 

Emilia. Dion. Thasius. 

Lamia. Archidamus. Camillo. 

Paulina. Leontes. 

Florizel. Perdita. Polixenes. 



L. H. 



Paul. (r. c.) What, sovereign sir, 
I did not well, I meant well. All my services, 
You have paid home : but that you have vouchsafed, 
"With your crowned brother, and these your contracted 
Heirs of your kingdoms, my poor house to visit, 
It is a surplus of your grace, which never 
My life may last to answer. 

Leon, (L. c.) O, Paulina, 

We honor you with trouble. But we came 
To see the statue of our queen : your gallery 
Have we passed through, not without much content 
[n many singularities ; but we saw not 



60 WIN ER's tale. [A.CT T» 

That which my daughter came to look upon, 
The statue of her mother. 

Paul. As she lived peerless, 

So her dead likeness, I do well believe, 
Excels whatever yet you looked upon. Prepare 
To see the life as lively mocked, as ever 
Still sleep mocked death. Behold ; and say, 'tis well. 

( Undraws a curiaini and discovers a statue,) 
I like your silence ; it the more shows off 
Your wonder. But yet speak ; — first, you, my liege, 
Comes it not something near ? 

Leo7u (In amazemeiit.) Her natural posture ! -^ 

Chide me, dear stone ; that I may say, indeed. 
Thou art Hermione ; or, rather, thou art she. 
In thy not chiding ; for she was as tender 
As infancy and grace. O, thus she stood. 
Even with such life of majesty, when first I wooed her ! 
I am ashamed. O royal piece. 
There's magic in thy majesty ; which has 
My evils conjured to remembrance ; and 
Erom thy admiring daughter took the spirits. 
Standing like stone with thee. 

Per, And give me leave, (advancing c, and kneelst) 
And do not say, 'tis superstition, that 
I kneel, and then implore her blessing. 

(Florizel raises her^ and passes her to B. H.) 

Leon. O, master-piece of art ! Nature's deceived 
By thy perfection, and at every look 
My penitence is all afioat again. 

PauL O patience ; 

The statue is but newly fixed ; the color's 
Not dry. 

Cam, My lord, your sorrow was too sore laid on ; 
"Which sixteen winters cannot blow away. 
So many summers dry ; scarce any joy 
Did ever so long live ; no sorrow. 
But killed itself much sooner. 

PoL Dear my brother. 

Let him, that was the cause of this, have power 
To take off so much grief from you, as he 
Will piece up in himself. 

Paul, Indeed, my lord, 

If I had thought the sight of my poor image 
Would thus have wrought (12) you, (for the stone is mine,) 
I'd not have showed it. (13) 

Leo7i. Do not draw the curtain. 

Paul, No longer shall you gaze on't ; lest your fancy 
May think anon it moves. 

Leon, Let be, let be. 

'Would I were dead, but that, methinks, already — 
What was he that did make it ? — See, my lord. 



6CENE in.] winter's tale. 61 

Would you not deem, it breathed ? and that these veins 
Did verily bear blood ? 

Paul, I'll draw the curtain. 

My lord's almost so far transported, that 
He'll think anon it lives. (^Going up, C.) 

Leon, O, sweet Paulina, 

Make me to think so twenty years together ; 
No settled senses of the world can match 
The pleasure of that madness. Let't alone. 

Paul, I am sorry, sir, I have thus far stirred you ; but 
I could afflict you further. 

Leon, Do, Paulina ; 

Por this affliction has a taste as sweet 
As any cordial comfort. — Still, methinks, 
There is an air comes from her. What fine chisel 
Could ever yet cut breath ? Let no man mock me, 
For I will kiss her. 

Paul, Good my lord, forbear. 

The ruddiness upon her lip is wet ; 
You'll mar it, if you kiss it. Shall I draw the curtain ? 

Leon, No, not these twenty years. 

Per, So long could I 

Stand by, a looker on. 

Paul, Either forbear, 

Quit presently the chapel ; or resolve you 
For more amazement. If you can behold it, 
I'll make the statue move indeed ; descend. 
And take you by the hand ; but then you'll think 
(Which I protest against) I am assisted 
By wicked powers. 

Leon, What you can make her do> 

I am content to look on ; what to speak, 
I am content to hear, for 'tis as easy 
To make her speak, as move. 

Paul, It is required. 
You do awake your faith. Then, all stand still, 
Or those that think it is unlawful business 
I am about, let them depart. 

Leon, Proceed ; 

No foot shall stir. 

Paul, Music ; awake her : strike. 

{Music, very piano through dialogue.) 
*Tis time ; descend ; be stone no more ; approach ; 
Strike all that look upon with marvel. Come; 

(Hermione turns towards Leontes.) 

Ijeon, Heavenly powers ! (KwELyno^^ descends from the pedestal.) 

Paul, (r. c.) Start not ; her actions shall be as holy as, 
You hear, my spell is lawful ; nay, present your hand. 

Leon, (l. c.) Support me. Heaven ! 
If this be more than visionary bliss. 
My reason cannot hold my queen, my wife. 
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62 "wit^ter's tale. [act 

But speak to me, and turn me wild with transport. 

I cannot hold me longer from those arms. 

She is warm — she lives ! (^Embracing Heumione.) 

Her beating heart meets mine, and fluttering o^yns 

Its long lost half : these tears, that choke her voice, 

Are hot and moist — it is Hermione ! 

O, she's warm ! {Emhraci7ig her.) 

If this be magic, let it be an art 

Lawful as eating. 

Pol, She embraces him. 

Cam* She hangs about his neck ; 
If she pertain to life, let her speak too. 

Pol, O, make it manifest where she has lived, 
Or, how stolen from the dead. 

Paul, Mark a little while — 
Please you to interpose, fair madam; (^To Perdita) kneel, 
And pray your mother's blessing. — Turn, good lady ; 
Our Perdita is found. 

(^Music ceases. Presenting Perdita, HjtRMiONE catchei A 
in her ai'ms,) 

Her, You gods, look do"v\Ti, 

And from your sacred vials pour your graces 
Upon my daughter's head. — 

My lord, my king — thus distance in those names — 
My husband ! 

Leo7i, O, my Hermione ! have I deserved 

That tender name ? Be witness, holy powers, 
If penitence may cleanse the soul from guilt, 
Leontes' tears have washed his crimes away. 
If thanks unfeign'd be all that you require, 
Most bounteous gods, for happiness like mine. 
Bead in m.y heart, your mercy's not in vain ! 

Her, No more my best lov'd lord ; be all that's passed 
Buried in this enfolding, and forgiven. 

Leo7i, Thou matchless saint ! — thou paragon of virtue ! 

Per, Thus let me bow, and kiss that honored hand. 

Her, Tell me, mine own, where hast thou been preserved } 
w^here lived ? how found 
Thy father's court ? Por thou shalt hear, that I — 
Knowing by Paulina that the oracle 
Gave hope thou wast in being — have preserved 
Myself to see the issue. 

Paul, There's time enough for that ; 

Lest they desire, upon this push to trouble 
Your joys with like relation. Go together, 
You precious winners (14 all ; your exultation 
Partake to every one. I, an old turtle, 

Will wing me to some withered bough ; and there v 

My mate, that's never to be found again, 
Lament till I am lost. 

Leon, No, no, Paulina ; 



8CENE III. -^-inter's TALE. 63 

Live blessed, with blessing others. My Poli^enes — 

What? Look upon my brother, (PoLixExri advances from L. h. ;) 

both your pardons, 
That e'er I put between your holy looks 
My ill suspicion. Come, our good Camillo, 
Now pay thy duty here. The worth and honesty 
Are richly noted ; and here justified 
By us, a pair of kings. And, my best queen, 
Again I give you this your son-in-law, 
And son unto the king, by Heaven's directing, 
Is troth-plight to your daughter. — Good Paulina, 
Lead us from hence, where we may leisurely 
Each one demand, and answer to his part 
Performed in this wide gap of time, since first 
We were dissevered. Hastily lead away. 



SITUATIONS, 




Officers. 


Officers, 


Lamlv. Lords. Lords. Hero. 


Ladies. 


Emillia. Ladies. Archidamus. 


Ladies. 


Phocion. Di0!T. 


Lords. 


Ladies. Thasius. 


Paul. Flor. Perd. Hbb. Leon. Pol. 


Cleg. Cam, 


U. H. 


L. H. 


Cisrtam. 





NOTES TO WINTER'S TALE. 



ACT I. 

(1) '-Royally attorneycd." Nobly supplied by substitution of embassies. 

(2) i. e., over a wide, intervening space. 

(3) " Physics the subject." Affords a cordial to the state ', has the power of 
assuaging the sense of misery. 

(4) That for that ! is not uncommon in old writers. 
^5) Sneaping, nipping. 

(6) i. e., to make me say, T had too good reason for my fears concerning what may 
happen in my absence from home. 

(7) To let had for its synonymes to stay or stop ; to let him there, is to stay him 
there. Oests were scrolls in which were marked the stages or places of rest iu a 
progress or journey, especially a royal one. 

(8) i. e., indeedf in very deed, in troth. Good deed is used in the same sense by 
the Earl of Surrey, Sir John Hayward, and Gascoigne. 

(9) i. e., setting aside the original sin, bating the imposition from the offence of 
our first parents, we might have boldly protested our innocence, 

(10) "Grace to boot ; " an exclamation equivalent to give us grace. 

(11) At entering into any contract, or plighting of troth, this clapping of hands 
together set the seal. Numerous instances of allusion to the custom have been 
adduced by the editors; one shall suflBre, from the old play of Ram Alley : " Come, 
clap hands, a match." The custom is not yet disused iu common life. 

(12) "from bounty, fertile bosom." Malone thinks that a letter has been 

omitted, and that we should read, " from bounty's fertile bosom." 

(13) " Bawcock/' A burlesque word of endearment supposed to be derived from 
beau-coq, or boy-cock. It occurs again in Twelfth Night, and in King Henrj V., and 
in both places is coupled with chuck or chick. It is said that bra'' cock is still used in 
Scotland. 

(14) Still playing with her fingers as a girl playing on the virginals. Virginals 
were stringed instruments played with keys like a spinnet, which they resembled in 
all respects but in shape, spinnets being nearly triangular, and virginals of an oblong 
square shape like a small piano-forte. 

(15) Thou wantest a rough head, and the budding horns that I have. A posh in 
some places denoting a young bull calf whose horns are springing ; a mad pash^ a 
mad-brained boy. 

(16) i. e.. entirely. 

(17) Welkin is blue ; i. e., the color of the welkin or sky. 

(18) In King Henry YI., Part I., we have — 

*' God knows thou art a collop of my flesh." 

(19) i. e.. an immature pea-pod. 

(20) "Will you take eggs for money? " A proverbial phrase for "Will you suffei 
yourself to be cajoled or imposed upon ? " 

(21) i. e., may happiness be his portion! 

(22) Heir apparent, next claimant. 

(23) i. e., mouth. 

(24) i. e., a homed one. 

(25) "It still came home." a nautical term, meaning, " the anchor would not take 
hold." 

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NOTES TO winter's TALE. 65 

(26) The more you requested him to stay, the more urgent he represented that 
business to be which summoned him away. 

(27) Not Polixenes and Ilermione, but casual observers. 

(28) To round in the ear was to tell secretly, to whisper. 

(29) Jl so-forth, a phrase apparently employed to avoid the utterance of an oppro- 
brious one. So, so, is sometimes used in a similar manner. 

(30) i. e., taste it. 

(31) Messes is here put for decrees, conditions. 

(32) To hox is to hamstring : the proper word is to hough. 

(33) Leontes means to say, " Have you not thought that my wife is slippery ? (for 
cogitation resides not in the man that does not think my wife is slipperyj' The four 
latter words, though disjoined from the word think by the necessity of a parenthesis, 
are evidently to be connected in construction with it. 

(34) The pin and web is the cataract in an early stage. 

(35) i. e., one hour. 

(36) The? old copy reads, "her medal." 

(37) "Bespice a cup." So in Chapman's translation of the tenth book of the 
Odyssey : — 

*♦ with a festival 

She'll first receive thee; but will spice thy bread 
With flowery poisons." 

(38) Rash is hasty ; as in King Henry IV., Part II., " rash gunpowder." Mali* 
ciously is malignantly, with effects openly hurtful. 

(39) Make that, i. e., Hermione's disloyalty, which is a clear point, a subject of 
doubt, and go rot ! Dost think I am such a fool as to torment myself, and bring 
disgrace on.me and my child, without sufficient grounds ? 

(40) Something is necessary to complete the verse. Hanmer reads : — 

*♦ Is goads and thorns, nettles and tails of wasps." 

(41) To blench is to start off, to shrink. 

(42) " I am appointed him to murder you ; " I am the person appointed to murder 
you. 

(43) i. e., to screw or move you to it. A vice, in Shakspeare's time, meant any 
kind of winding screw. The vice of a clock was a common expression. 

(44) That is, Judas. 

(45) " Swear his thought over." The meaning apparently is, " Over-swear his 
thought by." 

(46) i. e., I will place thee in elevated rank, always near to my own in dignity, or 
near my person. 



ACT II. 

(1) i. e., judgment. 

(2) That is, O that my knowledge were less ! 

(3) i. e., "a thing pinched out of clouts ; a puppet for them to move and actuate as 
they please." 

(4) Federary, confederate, accomplice. 

(5) i. e., no foundation can be trusted. 

(6) He who shall speak for her, is remotel}'- guilty in merely speaking. 

(7) I see and feel my disgrace, as you, Antigonus, now feel my doing this tn you, 
and as you now see the instruments that feel, i. e., my fingers. Leontes must hero 
be supposed to touch or lay hold of Antigonus. 

(8) i. e., of abilities more than sufficient. 

(9) Lunes. This word has not been found in any other English writer ; but it is 
used in old French for frenzy, lunacy, folly. A similar expression occurs in The 
Kevenger's Tragedy, 1608. 

(10) Blank and level mean mark and aim, or direction. They are terms of gunner^'. 

(11) Free, i. e., as here used, pure, diaste. 

(12) The old copy has professes. 

(13) " In comforting your evils.'''' To comfort, in old language, is to aid, to encour- 
age. Evils here mean wicked courses, 

(14) i. e., the weakest, or least warlike. 

(15) " A mankind wiU:h.'* In Junius's Nomenclator, by Abraham Fleming, 1585, 
Firago is interpreted " A manly woman, or a mankind woman." Johnson asserts 
that the phrase is still used in the midland counties for a woman violent, ferocious, 
and mischievous. 

6* 



W NOTES TO winter's TALE. 

(16) i. e., hen-pecked. To tire in falconry is to tear with the beak. Partlet is tht 
name of the hen iu the old story of Kenard the Fox. 

(17) A crone was originally a toothless old ewe ; and thence becamo a term of con- 
tempt for an old woman. 

(18) Forced is false ; uttered with violence to truth. Baseness for bastardy i wo 
still say base born, 

^19) " JVo yellow,''^ the color of jealousy. 

(20) Lotel, a worthless fellow: one lost to all goodness — from the Saxon losianjio 
perish, to be lost. Lorely losel, losliche^ are all of the same famil^y. 

(21) Leontes must mean the beard of Antigonus, which he may be supposed io 
touch. He himself tells us that twenty-three years ago ho was unbreeched ; of 
course his age must be under thirty, and his own beard would hardly be gray. 

(22) i. e., commit it to some place as a stranger. To commend is to commit, accord- 
ing to the old dictionaries. 

(23) i. e., the favor of Heaven. 

(24) i, e., to exposure, or to be lost or dropped. 



ACT III. 



(1) Own, possess. 

(2) Encounter so uncurrent is ^mallowed or unlawful meeting, — Strained means 
swerved or gone astray from the line of duty. The explanations of this passage ai"e 
not very satisfactory. It appears to be designed as a question. 

(3) It is to be observed that originally, in our language, two negatives did not 
affirm, but only strengthen the negation. In this passage, Johnson observes, that, 
according to the present use of words, less should be wore, or wanted should be 
had. 

(4) i. e., they who have done like you. 

(5) Bugbear. 

(6) " Starred most unluckily;" ill-starred, born under an inauspicious planet. 

(7) Strength of limit, i. e., the degree of strength which it is customary to acquire 
before women are suffered to go abroad after child-beariug. 

(8) The completeness of my misery. 

(9^ This is almost literally from Greene's novel. 

(10) i. e., of the event of the queen's trial. We still say, he sped well or ill. 

(11) Certain is not in the first folio; it was supplied by the editor of the second. 

(12) i. e., well assured. 

(13) i. e., description. The writing afterward discovered with Perdita. 

(14) " A savage clamor." This clamor was the cry of the dogs and hunters ; then 
Beeing the bear, he cries, This is the chase, i. e., the animal pursued. 

(15) This is from the novel. It is there said to be '• sea ivie, on which they du 
greatly feed." 

(16) i. e., swallowed it, as our ancient topers swallowed flap-dragons. 

(17) A bearing-cloth is the mantle of fine cloth iu which a child was carried to be 
baptized. 

(18) The old copies read mad. The emendation is Theobald's. 

(19) i. e., nearest. 

(20) Curst here signifies mischievous. 



ACT lY. 

(1) i. e., approve. 

(2) Autolycus was the sen of Mercury, and as famous for all the arts of fratid 
and thievery as his father. 

(3) i. e.. the red, the spring blood now reigns over the parts lately under the 
dominion of winter. A pale was a division, a place set apart from another, as tho 
Knglish pale, the pale of the church. The words pale and red were used for the sake 
of the antithesis. The glow of spring reigns over the paleness of winter. 

(4) A puggard was a cant name for some kind of thief. 

(5) .^M7»t was a cant word for a baiod or trull. 

(6) i. e., rich velvet, so called. 



NOTES TO winter's TALE. W-- 

(7) Autolycus moans that his practice was to steal sheets; leaving the smaller 
Linen to be carried away by the kites, who will sometimes carry it off to line their 
Dests. 

(8) The silly cheat is one of the slang; terms belonging to cony •catching or thievery. 
It is supposed to have meant picking of pockets, 

(9) Every eleven sheep will produce a tod or twenty-eight pounds of wool. The 
price of a tod of wool was about 20 or 22s. in 1581. 

(10) Counters were circular pieces of base metal, anciently used by the illiterate to 
adjust their reckonings. 

(11) Dame Quickly, speaking of Falstafif, says, " The king hath killed his hcart.^' 

(12) *' Trol-my-damcs." The old English title of this game was pigeon-holes f aa 
tlie arches'in the board through which the balls are to be rolled resemble the cavi- 
ties made for pigeons in a dove-house. 

(13) " Abide,"*^ only sojourn, or dwell for a time. 

(14) " He compassed a motion," &c. ; he obtained a puppet-show, <fec. 

(15) Prig^ another cant phrase for the order of thieves. 

(16) i. e.r dismissed from the society of rogues. 

(17) To hent the stile is to take the stile. It comes from the Saxon hentan. 

(18) The gracious mark of the land is the object of all men^s notice and expectation, 

(19) i. e.. far-fetched, not arising from present objects. 

(20) " Some call it sponsus solis, the spowse of the sunne, because it sleeps and is 
awakened with him," — Lupton^s JVotable Things, book vi. 

(21) Perhaps the true explanation of this passage may be deduced from the sub- 
joined verses in the original edition of Milton's Lycidas, which he subsequently 
omitted, and altered the epithet unwedded to forsaken in the preceding line. 

" Bring the rathe primrose that unwedded dies, 
ColoHng the pale cheek of unenjoyed love." 

(22) A kind of tape. 

(23) A kind of ferret or worsted lace. 

(24) A tawdry lace was a sort of necklace worn by country wenches. 

(25) Sweet, or perfumed gloves, are often mentioned by Shakspeare; they were 
very much esteemed, and a frequent present in the Poet's time. 

(26) Satyrs. 

(27) Foot rule (esguierre, Fr.) 

(28) This is an answer to something which the shepherd is supposed to have said 
to Polixenes during the dance. 

(29) Bought, trafficked. 

(30) i. e., sifted. 

(31) Fancy here means love, as in other places already pointed out. 

(32) *' Our need." The old copy reads her. The emendation is Theobald's. 

(33) Pomanders were little balls of perfumed paste, worn in the pocket, or hung 
about the neck, and even sometimes suspended to the wrist. The name is derived 
from pomme d^ambre, 

(34) We should probably read, "by I know not how much an ounce." 

(35) Fardel is a bundle, a pack or burden; "a pack that a man doth bear with hiur 
in the way," says Buret. 

(36) i. e., estate, property. 

(37) The measure, the stately tread of courtiers. 

(38) To toze is to pluck or draw out ; as to toie or teize wool, carpere lanam. Se^ 
the old dictionaries. 

(39) Malone says, " Perhaps in tlte first of these speeches we should read, a present, 
which the old shepherd mistakes for a pheasant.''' 

(40) Germane, related. 

(41) The hottest day foretold in the almanac. 



ACT y. 



(1) The old copy reads, " Pr'ythee, no more : cease ; thou k^rftv'st,*' &c. Steovens 
r*.aae the omission of the redundant word, which he considers a mere margioml glow 
or explanation of no more. 

(2) i. e., at amity, as we now say, 

(3) i. e., conversation. 

(4) Worthy for descent or wealth. 



3S NOTES TO winter's TALE, 

(5) Favor here stands for mien^ feature, 

(6) i. e., embracing. 

(7) Conduits or fountains were frequently representations of tbo human figur«. 

(8) 1. e., remote. 

(9) i. e., yeomen. 

(10) i. e., a bold^ courageous fellow. 

(11) Good masters. It was a common petitionary phrase to ask a superior to hi 
food lordf or g-ood master to the supplicant. " 

(12) Worked, agitated. 

(13) The folio reads, **7i'<i not have showed it." In the late edition of Malon«* 
ghakspeare it stands, " I'll not have showed it." But surely this is erroneous. 

(14) You who by this discovjry have gained what you desired. 



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75 Irish Broom-maker jUT Ladies at Home i2l9 Adopted Child 

76 To Paris and Back for|148 Ihenomenonin a Smock, ^St' Turned Heads 



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J5 Secret Service 

26 C>mnibus 

27 Irish Lion 

28 Maid of Crolssy 

29 The Old Guard 
80 Kaifliiig the Wind 
SI slsB^er ard Crasher 
Si Naval fkigagemeuts 

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.^3 Oockaie-s in California 
3i Who Speaks First 
o"> I'ouiuastes Purioso 
86 Ms^beth Travel tie 
37 Irish Ambassadcr 
3? Delicate Ground 

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44 T-wo Bon2vcac!i;/»a 

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46 Kiss in the Dark [jurer 118 Love iu Humble Lifd 
47 'Twould ^uzzle .» Con-'l li> Family Jars 

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VOL. VIT, I VOL. XVL 

<9 B^oT and Cox iiarrir^*/ audi 121 Children in the Wood 
5'J St. Cupid 1 Settled'i22 Winning a Husbaiil 



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77 That Blessed Baby 

78 Our Gal 

79 Swiss Cottage 

80 Young Widow 

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SI O'FIannigan and the Fa> 

82 Irish Post [ries 

83 My Neighbor's Wife 

84 Irish Tiger 

85 P . P . , or Man and Tiger 

86 To Oblige Benson 

87 State Secrets 

88 Irish Yankee 

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89 A Good Fallow 

90 Cherry and Fair Stao- 

91 Gale Breezely 

92 Our Jemimy 

93 Miller- w Maid 

94 Awkward Arrival 

95 Crossing the Line 

96 Conjugal Lesson 

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97Mt Wife's Wirror 
93 Life in New Yonk 
99 Middy Ashore 

100 Crown Prince 

101 Two Queen? 

102 Thumping Legacy 

103 Unfinished Gentlemaa 

104 House Dog 
VOL. XIV. 

105 The Demon Lover 
1U6 Ma'crimony 

107 In aud C'ut of Place 

108 I Dine with ily Mother 

109 Hi-a-wa-tha 



Frock 221 -i Match in the! 

149 Comedy and Tragedy l222 Advif^e to Hush* 

150 Opposite Neighbors 223 Siamese Twi- • 

151 Dutchman s Ghost 22i Sent to the ) 

152 I'ersecuted Dutchman VOL .XK^ 
VOL. XX, 225 Somebody Else 

153 Musard Ball 226 Ladles' Battle 

154 Great Tragic Revival 2-./.7 Art of Acting 

155 High Low Jack k Game 228 The Lady of the 

156 A Gentleman from Ire- 229 The Rights of Mj 

157 Tom aud Jerry [land'^iSO My Husband's G 

158 Village Lawyer J231 Two Can Play 
1.59 Captain's not A-aiiss j Game 

160 Amateurs and Actors 1232 Fighting by Proa 
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161 Promotion [ual 

162 A Fa.scinating Individ 

163 Mrs. Caudle 

I8i Shckspeare's Dream 
165Nep\.uue's Defeat 
166 Ladv of Bedchamber 
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167 Take Care 

168 Irish Widow 1 Charley 

VOL. xxn. 

169 Yankee Peddlar 

170 Hiram Hireout 

171 Double-Bedded Room 
112 The Drama Defended 

173 Vermont W ool Dealer 

174 Ebenezer Venture [ ter 

175 Principles *i-om Charac- 

176 Lady of the Laks (TravJ 
VOL. XXIII. 

177 Mad Dog« 

1 78 Barney the Baron 

179 Swiss Swains 
ISO Bachelor's Bedroom 
l."sl A Roland for an Oliver 
182 More Blunder* than One 
1S3 Dumb Belle 



233 Unprotected Fen 
234PetofthePeUij> 

235 Fji-ty and Fifty 

236 Who' Stole the 
?^^ My Son Diana 
238 Unwarrantable 



112 Romance under Dil^cS '^* ^^''^'^ ^^^ 

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nS One Coat for 2 Suits 
1 i 4 A Decided Case 

115 Daughter fnoHty 

116 No ; or, the glorious il" 

117 Coroner's Inquisition 



ittlei239 Mr. and Mrs. W 

240 A Quiet Family 
VOL. XXXI. 

241 Cool as Cucumb: 

242 Sudden Thought 

243 Jumbo Jum 

244 A Blighted Beln; 

245 Little Toddlekin 

246 A Lover by Proi 

247 Maid with the 

248 Perplexing Pred 
VOL. XXXII 

249 Dr. Dilwortll 

250 Out to Nurs» ' 

251 A Lucky Hit 

252 The Dowager 

253 Metamora (Barl< 

254 Dreams of Delus 
1255 The Sh.'^k tr Lov 
|256 Ticklish Timed 

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135 Nature and Philosophy '257 20 Minutes with 



51 no-to-bel Too* 

52 T 8 Law vers 
5> ."iftck Sher:irtrd 
54 fhe Toodles 

^^ The Mobcap 

66 La-lies Beware 

VOL. VIII. 

67 Morning Call 

58 Pop piug the Question 

59 Deaf as a Post 

60 New Footman 

61 Pleasant Neighbor 

62 Paddy the Piper 

63 Brian O'Linu 

64 Irish Assurance 

VOL. II. 

65 Temptation 

66 Paddy Carey 

67 Two Gregories 

68 King Charming 

69 Po-ca-hon-tas 
70Clockmaker'sH»» 
Tl Married Rake 

TJ Love and Msrder 

VOL. XXXVIl. 
Vm All (be WorHa • RUgo 
«?0 Qiiti.t, ot . y.ger Practk* 
«91 Turn Him (^t 
t9S Pretty Oirb of SilObvrf 
r»8 AriRrlof tb« Attic 
S94 Cirrumitiinrfi alter Cum 
W6 K«ity U Shell i 
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123 Day after the Fair 

124 Make Your W ilia 

125 Rendezvous 

126 My Wife s Husband 

127 irionsieur T'jnson 
123 Illustrious Stranger 

VOL. XVII 

129 Mischief-Making {-Mines 

130 A Live Woaan in the 

131 The Corsair 

132 Shylock 

133 Spoiled Child 

134 Evil Eye 

135 Nothing to Nurse 

136 Wanted a Widow 

VOL. xvin. 

187 Lottery Ticket 

188 Fortune's Frolic 

139 Is he Jealous r 

140 Marrier' jiachelor 

141 HuBuand at Sight 

142 irishman in Londoa 

143 Anirial Magnetism 

144 Highways aad By-W»yi 
VOL. XXXVIII. 

lei on Parie Fmncait 

298 Who killrd Cock Hobin 

299 Declai.tion of Indcj 
SOO B«adii or Tails 
301 ObHtinate Family 
SOS M; AuDt 

803 That Kaical Pat 

804 Uoa Padd) oe Basss 



186Ted.iy the Tiler " ' 258 Miralda: or, the 

187 Spectre Bridgroom of Tacon 

188 Maiteo Falccue 259 A SoMier s Cou- 
1S9 Jenu V Lind 260 Servants by Leg 
lyo Two Buzzarda -«1 Dying for Love 
!9l Happv Man 2R2 ilarmi-ig SacrL 
1S2 Betsy Baker 263 Valet de Sham 

^,-. _,__ 264 Nicholas Nickle' 

VOL. XXV. 1 

193 No. 1 Roand ihe Corneri "^""OL. XXXI 

194 Teddy Roe "-'^^ The Last of the 
iy5 Obiict of Interest !266 King R-ue'.* Da 

196 My Fellow Cleik 267 The Grotto Nyr 

197 Bengal Tiger i268 A Devilish GoO' 

195 Laughing Hyena |269 A 1 ^vice Yold T 

199 Th- Victor Vanquished !-'0 Pas de Fascina;. 

200 Our Wife '"'' «— ^•■*' — — « 
VOL. XXVI. 

201 My Hupband's Mirror 

202 Yankee Land. 



203 Norah Creina 



1 Rerolutiocary i 
j272 A Man Without I 
1 VOL. XXX'^ 

173 The Olio. Part] 

274 The Olio, Par. : 

275 The Olio, Part 
1276 The Trumpeler* 
|277 Seeing Warren 
^278 Green Mountai 
1279 That Nose 
[280 Tom Noddy's S 

VOL. XXX^ 



204 Good for Nothing 

205 The First Night 

206 The Eton Boy 

207 Wandering Minstrel 

208 Wanted, iOOO Milliners 
VOL. XXVII. 

209 Poor Pllcoddy „^ , 

210 The Mummy iGlasseslSSl Shocklag ^et 

211 Don'tPorgetyour Opera 282 A Regular Fix 
1212 Love in Livery 283 Dick Turpm 
'213 Anthony and Cleopatra ^281 Young ^ca*' *# 

214 TrTiug It On |285 Young Acii<5«J 

215 Stage Struck Yankee '286 Call at No. 1-1 

216 Young Wife & Old Urn- 287 One Touch of. 

bre'U 288TwoB*hoy» 

VM^ XXIX. [ture -- - -- 

305 Too Mi:ch for Good ^a- 
•(16 Cure for the Fidgtts 
.''07 Jack'sthoLfid 
30«MurhAdoabo-itNothing 
809 Artful Dcdpef 
310 Winriiiifr Huzard 
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314 Cousin Fannie 
315'TistheParkeB 
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317CrowdingtheS 
318GoodNicht»Bl 
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